different between streak vs lope

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

English

Etymology

Alteration of loup, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe, Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p
• Homophone: Lop

Verb

lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)

1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.

   • And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver

   • 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy

     he that lopes on the ropes

Derived terms

• loper

Related terms

• elope
• interlope

Translations

Noun

lope (plural lopes)

1. An easy pace with long strides.
   • 1931, Home Geographic Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 45)

     Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]

Translations

References

Anagrams

• LEPO, Pole, olpe, pleo-, pole

Afrikaans

Noun

lope

1. plural of loop

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English rope.

Noun

lope

1. rope

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

lope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lopen

Anagrams

• loep, poel

French

Etymology

Clipping of salope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/

Noun

lope f (plural lopes)

1. (slang, derogatory) male homosexual
2. (by extension, derogatory) cowardly, characterless man

Further reading

• “lope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Inari Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Northern Sami lohpi.

Noun

lope

1. promise

Inflection

Derived terms

• lopedi?

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland