STREAK
\stɹˈiːk], \stɹˈiːk], \s_t_ɹ_ˈiː_k]\
Definitions of STREAK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
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a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"
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a sudden flash (as of lightning)
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an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
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run naked in a public place
By Princeton University
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mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
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a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"
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a sudden flash (as of lightning)
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an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
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run naked in a public place
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A strake.
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To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
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A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
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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.
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The rung or round of a ladder.
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To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
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With it as an object: To run swiftly.
By Oddity Software
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A line of color different from the ground color; a trace; stripe.
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To form streaks in; mark with streaks; to stripe.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A line, stria, or stripe, especially one which is more or less indistinct or evanescent.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A line or long mark different in color from the ground: (min.) the appearance presented by the surface of a mineral when scratched.
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To form streaks in: to mark with streaks.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A line or long mark of a different colour from the ground; a stripe.
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To form streaks in; to stripe; to variegate with streaks.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A line or long mark of colour different from the ground; in min., that appearance which the surface of a mineral presents when scratched by a hard instr., or the appearance which a mineral leaves on a rough porcelain slab when forcibly drawn or stroked along its surface; in bot., a straight line formed by a vein, by colour, or by indentation; a range of planks running fore and aft on a vessel's side-also called a strake.
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To variegate with lines of a different colour; to stripe.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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