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Streak vs Cincture - What's the difference?

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Streak is a related term of cincture.


As nouns the difference between streak and cincture

is that streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion while cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.

As verbs the difference between streak and cincture

is that streak is to have or obtain streaks while cincture is to girdle, circle or surround.

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 .
  • *
  • 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

    Anagrams

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    cincture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
  • A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
  • * 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161
    • In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
  • (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

    • See also

    * ("cincture" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (cinctur)
  • to girdle, circle or surround