streak🔊

An irregular line left from smearing or motion.

A continuous series of like events.

A consistent facet of somebody's personality.

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 (family), (species).

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.

To have or obtain streaks.

To run quickly.

To run naked in public.

To move very swiftly.

To create streaks upon.

(Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.