Streak

streak
    n 1: an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck";
         "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" [syn: {streak}, {run}]
    2: a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a
       streak of wildness"
    3: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the
       background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars";
       "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: {stripe},
       {streak}, {bar}]
    4: a sudden flash (as of lightning)
    v 1: move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across
         the sky"
    2: run naked in a public place
    3: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of
       color as if stained [syn: {mottle}, {streak}, {blotch}]
    

Streak \Streak\, v. t. [Cf. {Stretch}, {Streek}.]
   To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
   [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Streak \Streak\, n. [OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line,
   stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth.
   stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See {Strike}, {Stroke}, n.,
   and cf. {Strake}.]
   1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground;
      a stripe; a vein.
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            What mean those colored streaks in heaven? --Milton.
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   2. (Shipbuilding) A strake.
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   3. (Min.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when
      scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of
      which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
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   4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]
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Streak \Streak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Streaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Streaking}.]
   1. To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to
      variegate with lines of a different color, or of different
      colors.
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            A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and
            black.                                --Sandys.
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            Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.
                                                  --Prior.
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   2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]
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319 Moby Thesaurus words for "streak":
      X ray, actinic ray, actinism, animus, antelope, aptitude, arrow,
      atomic beam, atomic ray, band, bar, beam, beam of light, belt,
      bent, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bezel, bias, blaze,
      blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blue darter, blue streak,
      body-build, bolt, brand, canal, canalize, cannonball, carve, cast,
      chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, character, characteristic,
      characteristics, chase, check, check off, checker, chink, chisel,
      cicatrize, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution,
      corrugate, corrugation, courser, crack, cranny, crasis, craze,
      crimp, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dapple, dart, dash, daub, define,
      delimit, delineation, demarcate, dharma, diagonal, diathesis, dike,
      discolor, disposition, ditch, dot, dotted line, eagle,
      eccentricity, electricity, engrave, engraving, ethos,
      express train, fiber, flake, flash, fleck, flute, fluting, fly,
      frame, freckle, furrow, gamma ray, gash, gazelle, genius, gleam,
      goffer, gouge, grain, greased lightning, greyhound, groove, gruel,
      gully, habit, hachure, hairline, hare, harlequin, hasten, hatch,
      hatching, hue, humor, humors, hurry, hurtle, idiosyncrasy, ilk,
      impress, imprint, incise, incision, inclination, individualism,
      infrared ray, invisible radiation, iris, jet plane, kidney, kind,
      lath, layer, leam, leaning, light, lightning, line, lineation,
      list, maculate, make, make a mark, makeup, marble, marbleize, mark,
      mark off, mark out, mental set, mercury, mere shadow, mettle,
      microgroove, mind, mind-set, mold, motley, mottle, nature, nick,
      notch, paper, patch, pencil, pepper, period, photon, physique,
      pleat, plow, point, polychrome, polychromize, predilection,
      predisposition, preference, prick, print, proclivity, propensity,
      property, punch, punctuate, puncture, quality, quicksilver, rabbet,
      race, radiation, radiorays, rail, rainbow, rake, ray, ray of light,
      ribbon, ribbon of light, riddle, rifle, rifling, rocket, ruck, run,
      rush, rut, scar, scared rabbit, scarify, scoot, score, scotch,
      scratch, seal, seam, set, shadow, shaving, shot, skeleton, slant,
      slash, slat, slip, slit, smear, solar rays, somatotype, sort, soup,
      spangle, spate, speck, speckle, speed, spell, spirit, splinter,
      splotch, spot, sprinkle, sprint, stain, stamp, stigmatize, stipple,
      strain, strake, stratum, streak of lightning, streaking, stream,
      stream of light, streamer, stretch, stria, striate, striation,
      striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striped snake, striping,
      stroke, stud, sublineation, suchness, sulcation, sulcus, swallow,
      system, tattoo, tear, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor,
      tessellate, thought, thunderbolt, tick, tick off, tone, torrent,
      touch, trace, trench, trough, turn, turn of mind, twist, type,
      ultraviolet ray, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring,
      variegate, vein, violet ray, virgule, wafer, warp, way,
      well-worn groove, whistle, whiz, wind, wrinkle, zip, zoom