different between hurtle vs streak

English

Etymology

From Middle English hurtlen, hurtelen, equivalent to hurt +? -le.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??tl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?tl/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?l

Verb

hurtle (third-person singular simple present hurtles, present participle hurtling, simple past and past participle hurtled)

1. (intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.

   The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

   Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

   • Together hurtled both their steeds.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
   • 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim

     The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.

4. (transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.

   He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.

5. (intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Translations

Noun

hurtle (plural hurtles)

1. A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
   • 1975, John Wakeman, Literary Criticism

     But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.

   • 2005, June 20, The Guardian

     Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

2. A clattering sound.
   • 1913, Eden Phillpotts, Widecombe Fair, page 26

     There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

Anagrams

• Luther, lureth, ruleth

English

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 ???????????????????????? (striks).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?i?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

streak (plural streaks)

1. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.

2. A continuous series of like events.

3. 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.
4. A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
   • Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
5. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
6. (shipbuilding) A strake.
7. A rung or round of a ladder.
8. The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

streak (third-person singular simple present streaks, present participle streaking, simple past and past participle streaked)

1. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.

   If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.

2. (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash)

   It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.

3. (transitive) To create streaks.

   You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
4. (transitive) To move very swiftly.
5. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

Translations

See also

• losing streak
• streaker
• winning streak
• talk a blue streak

Anagrams

• Akters, Kaster, Krastë, Skater, Staker, Starke, Tasker, retask, sakret, skater, staker, strake, takers, tasker, trakes