different between streak vs thong

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

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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 thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang, þweng, þwæng (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”).

Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?ng, IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

thong (plural thongs)

1. A strip of leather.
2. (usually in the plural, Australia, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
   • 1964, The Beach Boys, All Summer Long

     T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).

   • 2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108,

     Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.

   • 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 126,

     You shouldn?t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you?ve splashed $5000 on daddy?s credit card.

3. (Britain, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.

   No! I won't buy you a thong. You're too young for that.

4. The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.

Synonyms

• (an item of footwear): see list in flip-flop
• (an undergarment or swimwear): G-string, butt floss

Translations

See also

• sandal

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Etymology

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Noun

thong

1. pillar