English Explanatory Dictionary

streak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
  2. A continuous series of like events.
  3. A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
  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. 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. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

Pronunciation

/stɹiːk/ en-us-streak.ogg

Word forms

streak streaks streaking streaked

Etymology

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).

Related words

losing streak streaker winning streak talk a blue streak

Derived words

bestreak bluestreak blue streak compulsive streak dawnstreak eyestreak fall streak fallstreak hairstreak hot streak interstreak killstreak learning streak long streak of misery lucky streak Mallen streak mean streak paystreak prestreak primitive streak redstreak sapstreak scorestreak streak-backed antshrike streak camera streaken streak it streakless streaklike streakline streak of good luck streak of piss streak plate streakwise streaky visual streak yellow streak outstreak restreak

Translations

Bashkir: һыҙат Bulgarian: серия Bulgarian: последователност Chinese Mandarin: 连胜 Chinese Mandarin: 连续记录 Finnish: sarja Finnish: ketju Finnish: putki Hungarian: sorozat Hungarian: széria Polish: passa Portuguese: série Russian: полоса́ Russian: череда Scottish Gaelic: stìom Spanish: sarta Spanish: racha Spanish: ristra Spanish: serie Spanish: secuencia Swedish: rad
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