streak

Meaning

1. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
2. A continuous series of like events.
3. A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
4. A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
5. 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.
6. A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
7. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
8. A strake.
9. A rung or round of a ladder.
10. The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
11. To have or obtain streaks.
12. To run quickly.
13. To run naked in public.
14. To move very swiftly.
15. To create streaks upon.
16. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

Etymology / origin

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 and Norwegian Nynorsk strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).

Related words

Descendant words

• streaken(Dutch) (bor)
• streko(Esperanto) (cog)
• stringo(Latin) (cog)
• Stréch(Luxembourgish) (cog)

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