streak

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
2. A continuous series of like events.
3. (Internet) A continuous series of like events.
4. A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
5. 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.
6. A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
7. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
8. A strake.
9. A rung or round of a ladder.
10. The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
2. (intransitive) To run quickly.
3. (intransitive) To run naked in public.
4. (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
5. (transitive) To create streaks upon.
6. (Scotland, UK, obsolete) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

Conceptes

ratlla

estria

filet

línia

ratllar

reduir

reglar

tira

traçar

tret

veta

🎀

desacreditar

ratxa

Sinònims

stripe

line

strip

scratch

mark

stria

stroke

run

feature

vein

band

fleck

mottle

rush

series

strain

flash

zoom

succession

music line

trait

bar

thread

🧵

trace

blotch

fringe

striate

smear

striation

patch

lineament

dash

💨

destroy

deprave

career

demolish

demean

bring down

batch

degrade

decrease

fulmination

fly

✈️

debase

block

abridge

fluting

flute

🪈

cut up

fleet

Traduccions

raya

Streifen

schrap

schreef

streep

raie

zébrer

streek

rayure

haal

strie

flitzen

streifen

stria

Strich

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stɹiːk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: streke

Heretat de anglès antic: strica

Cognat amb frisó septentrional: strijck

Cognat amb Old Saxon: striki

Cognat amb Middle Low German: streke

Cognat amb baix alemany: streek

Cognat amb danès: streg

Cognat amb suec: streck

Cognat amb noruec bokmål: strek

Cognat amb islandès: stryk

Cognat amb neerlandès: streek

Cognat amb afrikaans: streek

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: strih

Cognat amb alemany: Strich

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃

In summary

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).