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Definition of 'streak'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) streak
a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like.

2.  streak
a vein; stratum:
streaks of fat in meat.

3.  streak
a slight ingredient; trace:
a streak of humor.

4.  streak
a spell; run:
a streak of good luck.

5.  streak
an uninterrupted series:
a losing streak of ten games.

6.  streak
a flash leaving a visible line or aftereffect, as of lightning; bolt.

7.  streak
the color of the powder obtained by rubbing certain minerals on an unglazed ceramic surface: used in mineral identification.

8. (v.t.) streak
to mark with streaks; form streaks on.

9.  streak
to lighten or color (strands of hair).

10.  streak
to spread in streaks.

11. (v.i.) streak
to become streaked.

12.  streak
to run, go, or work rapidly.

13.  streak
to make a sudden dash in public while naked, esp. as a prank.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; (n.) ME streke, akin to strike, OE strica stroke, line, mark)

Definition of 'streak'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) streak, run
an unbroken series of events
"had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"

2. (noun) streak
a distinctive characteristic
"he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"

3. (noun) stripe, streak, bar
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
"a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

4. (verb) streak
a sudden flash (as of lightning)

5. (verb) streak
move quickly in a straight line
"The plane streaked across the sky"

6. (verb) streak
run naked in a public place

7. (verb) mottle, streak, blotch
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

Definition of 'streak'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) streak
a long thin line of sth that is a different color from what surrounds it
a streak of gray in her black hair; pink streaks in the evening sky

2.  streak
a series of successes or failures
The team is on a seven-game winning/losing streak.

3.  streak
a noticeable personal characteristic
She has a stubborn/competitive streak.

4. (verb) streak
to move somewhere very quickly
A military jet streaked across the sky.

5.  streak
to make streaks on sth
Rain streaked the windows.

Definition of 'streak'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) streak
a line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein

2. (noun) streak
a strake

3. (noun) streak
the fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character

4. (noun) streak
the rung or round of a ladder

5. (verb) streak
to stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body

6. (verb) streak
to form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors

7. (verb) streak
with it as an object: To run swiftly

Translation of 'streak'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a long, irregular mark or stripe There was a streak of blood on her cheek; a streak of lightning.
Afrikaans: streep, merk, slag	Arabic: شَريط، خَط	Bulgarian: драскотина
Brazilian: risca	Czech: proužek, šmouha, čára (bl	German: der Streif(en)
Danish: stribe	Greek: γραμμή, λωρίδα	Spanish: raya, veta, filón
Estonian: triip, vööt	Farsi: رگه	Finnish: viiru
French: filet	Hebrew: פַּס	Hindi: धारी
Croatian: žica, pruga	Hungarian: csík	Indonesian: goresan
Icelandic: lína, rák, strik	Italian: striatura, striscia	Japanese: 筋
Korean: 줄무늬, 선	Lithuanian: brūkšnys, ruožas	Latvian: svītra
Malay: jalur-jalur	Dutch: streep	Norwegian: stripe, strek
Polish: smuga	Persian: رگه	Pashto: لیکه
Portuguese: risca	Romanian: dungă	Russian: полоска; вспышка
Slovak: pás(ik); čiara	Slovenian: proga	Serbian: pruga
Swedish: strimma, streck	Thai: ริ้วลาย	Turkish: çizgi, şerit
Taiwanese: 條紋	Ukrainian: подряпина; смужка	Urdu: دھاری
Vietnamese: đường, sọc, vệt	Chinese: 条纹
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