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Streak vs Screak - What's the difference?

streak | screak |

As nouns the difference between streak and screak

is that streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion while screak is shriek; screech.

As verbs the difference between streak and screak

is that streak is to have or obtain streaks while screak is shriek; screech.

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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    screak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • shriek; screech
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Amanda Millie Douglas, title=A Little Girl in Old Boston, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak " of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • shriek; screech
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=July 2, author=Richard Meltzer, title=Vinyl Reckoning, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2003, date=November 14, author=Jeff Huebner, title=Coming Home, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages. }}

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