different between streak vs ribbon

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

From Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?n/
• Rhymes: -?b?n

Noun

ribbon (countable and uncountable, plural ribbons)

1. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
2. An awareness ribbon.
3. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
4. A narrow strip or shred.

   a steel or magnesium ribbon

   sails torn to ribbons

   1. (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
5. (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband
6. (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
7. A watchspring.
8. A bandsaw.
9. (slang, dated, in the plural) Reins for a horse.
   • 1887, James Inglis, Our New Zealand Cousins

     "Here, sir, hold the ribbons." This to me, throwing me the reins. Jack got down from his perch, and after a little search in the bush was rewarded by the capture of the poor dazed pigeon, who was consigned to safe custody in the boot.

10. (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
11. (spinning) A sliver.
12. (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
13. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ribon)
• ? Korean: ?? (ribon)

Translations

See also

• riband

Verb

ribbon (third-person singular simple present ribbons, present participle ribboning, simple past and past participle ribboned)

1. (transitive) To decorate with ribbon.

   Synonym: beribbon

2. (transitive) To stripe or streak.

Anagrams

• Robbin, robbin