1. • noun - an unbroken series of events
   • noun - a distinctive characteristic
   • noun - a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
   • noun - a sudden flash (as of lightning)
   • verb - move quickly in a straight line
   • verb - run naked in a public place
   • verb - mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
2. • A line, mark, smear, or band differentiated by color or texture from its surroundings.
   • A slight contrasting element; a trace: “There was a streak of wildness in him” (Olga Carlisle).
   • Informal.
   • A brief run or stretch, as of luck.
   • An unbroken series, as of wins or losses.
   • The color of the fine powder produced when a mineral is rubbed against a hard surface.
   • Any of various viral diseases of plants characterized by the appearance of discolored stripes on the leaves or stems.
   • A bacterial culture inoculated by drawing a bacteria-laden needle across the surface of a solid culture medium.
   • To mark with streaks: rain streaking the pavement.
   • To lighten (strands of hair) with a chemical preparation.
   • To inoculate in order to produce a streak.
   • To form streaks.
   • To be or become streaked.
   • The central meaning shared by these nouns is “an intermixture of an unexpected quality, as in a person’s character”: a streak of humor; a strain of melancholy; a vein of stubbornness.
3. • v - to cover with streaks (long, narrow marks)

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