streak
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
Etymology: 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 and Norwegian Nynorsk strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).
Inflected forms:
form: streaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: streaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: streaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: streaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: streaked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
pos: noun
examples: '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.
The picture I took out the car window had streaks.
gloss: A continuous series of like events.
pos: noun
examples: I hope I can keep up this streak of accomplishments.
I was on a winning streak until the fourth game, when I was dealt terrible cards.
gloss: A continuous series of like events.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Out went conversation in favour of fast and more immediate pleasures. We migrated on to texts, voice notes, emojis and the Snapchat “streak”.
gloss: A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
pos: noun
examples: a mean streak
a stubborn streak
But speaking of cats, there's a good deal to be learned about women from them, 'Orace. […] I've known very few who wouldn't admit, between ourselves, that most others had a fair streak of the feline.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
pos: noun
examples: Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
gloss: A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
pos: noun
examples: She's a quiet, bookish person, but she has a rebellious streak.
Rashford showed the fearless streak Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.
Coinbase’s government work has proved highly controversial to many crypto fans, owing perhaps to the long-running libertarian streak in that community.
gloss: A strake.
pos: noun
gloss: A rung or round of a ladder.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
pos: noun
gloss: To have or obtain streaks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
gloss: To run quickly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "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."
gloss: To run naked in public.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
The fad began with a lone male running naked across the Florida State University campus several weeks ago. Students on other campuses began streaking in pairs, then groups, and were joined by some coeds.
gloss: To move very swiftly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To create streaks upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship’s hull, called the “bright waist,” that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
gloss: To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
UK
obsolete
Related words: losing streak
streaker
winning streak
talk a blue streak
Derived words: bestreak
bluestreak
blue streak
compulsive streak
dawnstreak
eyestreak
fall streak
fallstreak
hairstreak
hot streak
interstreak
killstreak
learning streak
long streak of misery
lucky streak
Mallen streak
mean streak
paystreak
prestreak
primitive streak
redstreak
sapstreak
scorestreak
streak-backed antshrike
streak camera
streaken
streak it
streakless
streaklike
streakline
streak of good luck
streak of piss
streak plate
streakwise
streaky
visual streak
yellow streak
outstreak
restreak
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: һыҙат
roman: hıźat
lang: Bulgarian
word: серия
roman: serija
lang: Bulgarian
word: последователност
roman: posledovatelnost
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 连胜
roman: liánshèng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 连续记录
lang: Finnish
word: sarja
lang: Finnish
word: ketju
lang: Finnish
word: putki
lang: Hungarian
word: sorozat
lang: Hungarian
word: széria
lang: Polish
word: passa
lang: Portuguese
word: série
lang: Russian
word: полоса́
roman: polosá
lang: Russian
word: череда
roman: čereda
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: stìom
lang: Spanish
word: sarta
lang: Spanish
word: racha
lang: Spanish
word: ristra
lang: Spanish
word: serie
lang: Spanish
word: secuencia
lang: Swedish
word: rad