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Streak   /strik/   Listen
Streak

noun
1.
An unbroken series of events.  Synonym: run.  "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
2.
A distinctive characteristic.  "A streak of wildness"
3.
A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.  Synonyms: bar, stripe.  "May the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
4.
A sudden flash (as of lightning).
verb
(past & past part. streaked; pres. part. streaking)
1.
Move quickly in a straight line.
2.
Run naked in a public place.
3.
Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained.  Synonyms: blotch, mottle.



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"Streak" Quotes from Famous Books



... the willows along the wide, level river bottom seemed an unnatural growth, for they made a streak of yellow-green across the mountain-desert when all other verdure withered and died. After nightfall they became still more dreary. Even when the air was calm there was apt to be a sound as of wind, for the tenuous, ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... to get home, and whose temperament was little suited for the endurance of such agonies of Tantalus. He became the very embodiment of restlessness. A hundred times a-day he went aloft to look out for some prospect of a change, and to strain his eyes after the streak of land to the north which was to be made out on clear days from the maintop-gallant mast-head, and which of course would be the coast of Norway. The dress, the silk handkerchiefs, the rings, and what he should say to Elizabeth—whether ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... of Glenfernie shaded his eyes and looked at the fire. Mrs. Jardine, working upon the gold streak in a tulip, held her needle suspended and sat for a moment with unseeing gaze, then resumed the bright wreath. The tutor began to think again of Mother Binning, and, following this, of the stepping-stones at White Farm, and Elspeth ...
— Foes • Mary Johnston
... bounds the monster had become a great grey streak that crackled and rustled in the shadows of the trees. And then it had vanished, become invisible and inaudible with ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... the morning the storm seemed to lull a little. My companion crept out from underneath the cart; I followed. The plug, who had managed to improve the occasion by stuffing himself with grass, was soon in the shafts again, and just as dawn began to streak the dense low-lying clouds towards the east we were once more in motion. Still for a couple of hours more the rain came down in drenching torrents and the lightning flashed with angry fury over the long corn-like grass beaten flat by the ...
— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler


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