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English Dictionary: streak by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
streak
n
  1. an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): 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
    Synonym(s): mottle, streak, blotch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Streak \Streak\, v. t. [Cf. {Stretch}, {Streek}.]
      To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
      [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
                     What mean those colored streaks in heaven? --Milton.
  
      2. (Shipbuilding) A strake.
  
      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.
  
      4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
                     A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and
                     black.                                                --Sandys.
  
                     Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.
                                                                              --Prior.
  
      2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Garboard \Gar"board\, n. (Naut.)
      One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a
      garboard strake.
  
      {Garboard strake} [or] {streak}, the first range or strake of
            planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. --Totten.
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