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Streak vs Coruscation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between streak and coruscation

is that streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion while coruscation is a sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.

As a verb streak

is to have or obtain streaks.

streak

English

(wikipedia streak)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • A continuous series of like events.
  • 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.
  • A moth of the family Geometridae .
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  • A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
  • (shipbuilding) A strake.
  • A rung or round of a ladder.

    • Derived terms

    * streak of good luck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To have or obtain streaks.
    • If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
  • (slang) To run naked in public.
    • It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
  • To create streaks.
    • You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
  • To move very swiftly.
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

    • See also

    * losing streak * streaker * winning streak * talk a blue streak

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    coruscation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.
  • * 2001, (2001), 6,
    • All of these things - the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations - gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.