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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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trek
English
Alternative forms
- treck (archaic)
Etymology
From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?k, IPA(key): /t??k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
trek (plural treks)
- (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
- (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
- A slow or difficult journey.
- A long walk.
- Synonym: slog
Verb
trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)
- (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
- (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
Related terms
- trigger
Translations
Anagrams
- rekt
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /træk/
Etymology 1
From Dutch trekken.
Verb
trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)
- to haul
- to move (moving house)
- to pull
Descendants
- ? English: trek
Etymology 2
From Dutch trek.
Noun
trek (plural trekke)
- journey
Derived terms
- Groot Trek
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr?k/
- Hyphenation: trek
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.
Noun
trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)
- (uncountable) appetite
- Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar
- Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task
- (countable) journey, migration
- (uncountable) animal migration
- (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
- (countable) feature, trait
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
trek
- first-person singular present indicative of trekken
- imperative of trekken
Anagrams
- rekt
French
Noun
trek m (plural treks)
- treck
- trecking
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t?ek]
Noun
trek
- truck
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30
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