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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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surge
English
Etymology
From Middle English surgen, possibly from Middle French sourgir, from Old French surgir (“to rise, ride near the shore, arrive, land”), from Old Catalan surgir, from Latin surg?, contr. of surrig?, subrig? (“lift up, raise, erect; intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc.”, transitive verb), from sub (“from below; up”) + reg? (“to stretch”); see regent.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: sûrj IPA(key): /s?d?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
- Homophone: serge
Noun
surge (plural surges)
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation
- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
- 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6
- He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
- He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, / Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
- 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6
- (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- all great rivers are gorged and assembled of various surges and springs of water
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
Synonyms
- inrush
Derived terms
- countersurge
- surgeless
Translations
Verb
surge (third-person singular simple present surges, present participle surging, simple past and past participle surged)
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
Related terms
- source
Translations
References
- surge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- surge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- FM 55-501
Anagrams
- Ruges, grues, urges
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -urd?e
Verb
surge
- third-person singular present indicative of surgere
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sur.?e/, [?s??r??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sur.d??e/, [?surd???]
Verb
surge
- second-person singular present active imperative of surg?
- (Matt. IX. v.5)
Arise, and walk. (KJV)
Portuguese
Verb
surge
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of surgir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of surgir
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?su?xe/, [?su?.xe]
Verb
surge
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of surgir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of surgir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of surgir.
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