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Streak

//stɹiːk// noun, verb

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Noun

1
An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
"'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed."
2
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background wordnet
3
A continuous series of like events.
"I hope I can keep up this streak of accomplishments."
4
a distinctive characteristic wordnet
5
A continuous series of like events.; A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement. Internet
"Out went conversation in favour of fast and more immediate pleasures. We migrated on to texts, voice notes, emojis and the Snapchat “streak”."

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6
a sudden flash (as of lightning) wordnet
7
A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
"a mean streak"
8
an unbroken series of events wordnet
9
The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
10
A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
"Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia"
11
A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
"She's a quiet, bookish person, but she has a rebellious streak."
12
A strake.
13
A rung or round of a ladder.
14
The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.

Verb

1
To have or obtain streaks. intransitive
"If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak."
2
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained wordnet
3
To run quickly. intransitive
""As it was I came a hell of a crack against a Dam' rustic arbour in the garden. Dam' near stunned me. But I never stopped a second. Up and over the back fence and streaked for the common.""
4
run naked in a public place wordnet
5
To run naked in public. intransitive
"It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field."

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move quickly in a straight line wordnet
7
To move very swiftly. intransitive
"But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice."
8
To create streaks upon. transitive
"You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight."
9
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. Scotland, UK, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).

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