streak
条纹,条纹路,条纹状,条痕
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Definitions
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- : a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- : a portion or layer of something, distinguished by color or nature from the rest; a vein or stratum: streaks of fat in meat.
- : a vein, strain, or admixture of anything: a streak of humor.
- : Informal. a spell or run: a streak of good luck.an uninterrupted series: The team had a losing streak of ten games.
- : a flash leaving a visible line or aftereffect, as of lightning; bolt.
- : Mineralogy. the line of powder obtained by scratching a mineral or rubbing it upon a hard, rough white surface, often differing in color from the mineral in the mass, and serving as an important distinguishing character.
- : Plant Pathology. an elongated, narrow, superficial lesion on stems or leaf veins, becoming brown and necrotic.any disease characterized by such lesions.
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- : to mark with a streak or streaks; form streaks on: sunlight streaking the water with gold; frost streaking the windows.
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The Democratic candidate has won Minnesota in 11 straight presidential elections, the longest active streak in the country.
Now, “We’ve had two separate six-day winning streaks in the same month—that’s never happened in the history of August,” he tells Fortune.
This year, as many states stopped sending teams to help seniors vote, his nursing home was on coronavirus lockdown and his streak was in jeopardy.
Look closer still and you will see streaks of darkness cutting through the haze.
The last thing he wants is for his “68-year streak,” as he proudly calls it, to end in November.
Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.
It was clear to me that at least at the end of his life the Dionysian streak was trying to get out.
Was the blackface scene with Gene Wilder in Silver Streak an important step in how American audiences view minstrelsy?
In fact, the original Burroughs books possess a clear “green” streak that now seems quite prescient.
In fact, she knew the correct answer 92 percent of the time she buzzed in during her 20-game streak.
But few knew of this her literary streak, as her mother styled it, for she dreaded any publicity.
This bird also has a whitish over the eye, which seems wanting in A. streperus.