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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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incandescence
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French incandescence.
Morphologically incandesce +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.kæn?d?s.?ns/, /??n.k?n?d?s.?ns/
Noun
incandescence (usually uncountable, plural incandescences)
- (physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
- the light so emitted
- (by extension) great emotion, especially anger
Translations
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