streak

Significado (English)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

stripe

line

strip

scratch

stria

mark

run

stroke

feature

mottle

rush

fleck

band

vein

patch

strain

bar

striate

striation

series

lineament

fringe

succession

smear

blotch

trait

thread

🧵

trace

dash

💨

flash

zoom

music line

downsize

draw

draw a line

drop

file

fleet

flute

🪈

fluting

fly

✈️

fulmination

gleam

glint

groove

hiss

humble

humiliate

intercalation

interlayer

interleaf

jet

lamination

layer

lessen

let down

light

lode

look down

lower

marking

matter

mezzanine

mortify

nest

nexus

pack

particularity

property

pull down

quotation

race

range

rank

ray

reduce

reef

roll out

row

ruin

run down

sandwich

🥪

sandwiching

seam

set

shrink

side

slew

slice

smudge

soil

speckle

speed

splotch

strake

strand

stratum

streaking

stream

striae

string

🪢

suite

talent

track

tramlines

wale

weatherstrip

welt

wheal

whish

whisk

whizz

wreck

write down

zip

zone

bolt of lightning

cry down

make a stroke

pull to pieces

short period

zip by

linear mark

millrows

striature

design

strath mark

lightening flash

travel rapidly

whizz along

bestreak

stread flaw

abase

rivelling

abrasion

abridge

attribute

batch

battery

🔋

belt

bent

besmirch

block

bring down

career

cascade

chapter

character

characteristic

concatenation

cord

couch

🛋️

cut up

debase

decrease

degrade

demean

demolish

deprave

destroy

dimension

diminish

dirty

discredit

division

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/stɹiːk/

Etimoloxía (English)

Inherited from Middle English: streke

Inherited from Old English: strica

Cognate with frisón setentrional: strijck

Cognate with Old Saxon: striki

Cognate with Middle Low German: streke

Cognate with baixo alemán: streek

Cognate with dinamarqués: streg

Cognate with sueco: streck

Cognate with noruegués bokmål: strek

Cognate with islandés: stryk

Cognate with neerlandés: streek

Cognate with afrikaans: streek

Cognate with Old High German: strih

Cognate with alemán: Strich

Cognate with Gothic: 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).