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streak
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)
- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A continuous series of like events.
- 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.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- (shipbuilding) A strake.
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- 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)
- (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
- If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
- (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash)
- It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
- (transitive) To create streaks.
- You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
- (transitive) To move very swiftly.
- (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
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blaze
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ble?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
Etymology 1
From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-Germanic *blas? (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”). Compare Dutch bles (“blaze”), German Blesse (“blaze, mark on an animal's forehead”), Swedish bläs (“blaze”).
Noun
blaze (plural blazes)
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
Derived terms
- ablaze
- blazen
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.
Verb
blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
- And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- (transitive, figuratively) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (figuratively) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand (page 160)
- "I'll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!" blazed the girl.
- 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand (page 160)
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
Related terms
- ablaze
- blaze a trail
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *bl?san, from Proto-Germanic *bl?san? (“to blow”). Related to English blast.
Verb
blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon
Noun
blaze (plural blazes)
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report
References
- blaze at OneLook Dictionary Search
- blaze in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Elbaz
Czech
Etymology
From blahý +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?blaz?]
- Rhymes: -az?
- Hyphenation: bla?ze
Adverb
blaze (comparative blažeji, superlative nejblažeji)
- blissfully, happily
Related terms
- blažen?
- š?astn?
- mile
Related terms
Further reading
- blaze in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- blaze in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bla?z?]
Verb
blaze
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blazen
Anagrams
- bazel
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian *bl?sa, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?san, from Proto-Germanic *bl?san?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blaz?/
Verb
blaze
- to blow
Inflection
Further reading
- “blaze (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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Alternative forms
- bleaze
Etymology
From Middle English blase, from Old English blase.
Noun
blaze
- faggot
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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