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Streak vs Strides - What's the difference?

streak | strides |

As nouns the difference between streak and strides

is that streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion while strides is .

As verbs the difference between streak and strides

is that streak is to have or obtain streaks while strides is (stride).

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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    strides

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
  • * 2004 , Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga , Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,
    • So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot?s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides .
  • * 2006 , Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman , AuthorHouse, page 173,
    • He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides , nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
  • * 2007 , Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer , page 211,
    • His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
  • * 1994 , , 2008, unnumbered page,
    • I thought of Des and May?s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stride)
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