to streak
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2.8
- verb
- /striːk/
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- Mother crept through the grayness overhead, streaking the sky with ribbons of pink and orange.
- streak with blood
- streak onto a plate
- streak on agar
And so work slowly, don't just start streak streaking up a bunch of white stripes.
- And so work slowly, don't just start streak streaking up a bunch of white stripes.
Examples
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Maria is in her early forties, her hair is streaked with gray, and she walks with a limp.
Academic text (1996) -
Collar up, cap pulled over the eyes, face streaked with salt water.
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But I'm going to just kind of streak this all over my skin and then I'm going to be using a new brush.
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Yellow light from the church windows streaked the puddles in the yard under a low black sky.
Fiction book (1991) -
As I drove off, it was still raining ... ... and the drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
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Before it rose another mountain whose glaciers, streaked with crevasses, glistened yellow in the south.
Fiction book (1991) -
She decided to streak the canvas with bright colors to create an abstract effect.
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The artist streaked the glass with paint, leaving vibrant lines across its surface.
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Water streaked the window, forming thin lines as it flowed down during the rain.
Synonyms
377
2.1
To form a row along the edge of something
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3.2
To mark a surface with long narrow lines of a different color
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7.7
To make thin lines appear on something
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8.0
To make something have uneven spots or patches of color
2
9.5
To make thin parallel lines or shallow grooves on a surface
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant disease that makes tomato and other crops have pale lines on leaves and reduces how much they produce
How Marked
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb streak meaning to mark something with long, thin lines comes from the noun for a line; to 'streak' something is simply to put those long marks or patches on a surface. This links the action directly to the idea of a thin line.