Ribs vs Streak - What's the difference?
ribs | streak |
An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
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, title= 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.
To have or obtain streaks.
(slang) To run naked in public.
To create streaks.
To move very swiftly.
(obsolete, UK, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
As nouns the difference between ribs and streak
is that ribs is while streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion.As verbs the difference between ribs and streak
is that ribs is (rib) while streak is to have or obtain streaks.streak
English
(wikipedia streak)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* streak of good luckVerb
(en verb)- If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
- It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
- You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
