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streak
Found in thesaurus: succession, characteristic, marking, flash, move, run, colorize, colourize, colour in, color, colourise, colorise, colour, color in
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streak
n.
narrow irregular line, stripe, smear; rapid movement or something that moves very quickly; trace, small amount; layer, stratum; unbroken series of events; spell or run (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
v.
mark with streaks; lighten strands of hair; run very quickly, dash
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Streak
Streak or streaking may refer to:
- Streaking, running naked in a public place
- Streaking (microbiology), a method of purifying micro-organisms
- Streak (mineralogy), the color left by a mineral dragged across a rough surface
- Streak (moth), in the family Geometridae
- Streak (film), a 2008 film
- Winning streak (sports), consecutive wins in sport or gambling
- Losing streak (sports)
- The Streak (wrestling), a run of victories for The Undertaker at WrestleMania
- Iron man (sports streak), an athlete of unusual physical endurance
- Dell Streak, tablet computer by Dell
- Streak camera, device to measure short optical pulses
- "The Streak", a 1974 record by Ray Stevens
- Archenteron, an indentation on a blastula
- Heath Streak, former Zimbabwe cricket team captain
- Streak late 1940s single engine civilian aircraft
- Streak (company) is a private American company founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California
- Streak (zoology) is a group of tigers. → see List of collective names for a group of animals]==See also==
- Streaker (disambiguation)
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streak
Noun
1. an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
(synonym) run
(hypernym) succession
(hyponym) losing streak
2. a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"
(hypernym) characteristic
3. a marking of a different color or texture from the background
(synonym) stripe
(hypernym) marking
(hyponym) band, stria, striation
(derivation) mottle, blotch
4. a sudden flash (as of lightning)
(hypernym) flash
Verb
1. move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"
(hypernym) move
2. run naked in a public place
(hypernym) run
(derivation) streaker
3. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
(synonym) mottle, blotch
(hypernym) color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
(derivation) stripe
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streak
n.
úzký pruh; proužek; povahový rys
v.
pádit
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streak
Rzecz.
pasek; cecha charakteru; passa
Czas.
pędzić
