Streak vs String - What's the difference?
streak | string |
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.
(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
* Prior
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
* Gibbon
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
(countable) A series of items or events.
(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
(music, countable) A stringed instrument.
(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)
(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics
(slang) cannabis or marijuana
A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
The points made in a game of billiards.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
* Francis Bacon
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
* Bible, Mark vii. 35
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(architecture) A stringcourse.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
In context|shipbuilding|lang=en terms the difference between streak and string
is that streak is (shipbuilding) a strake while string is (shipbuilding) an inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.As nouns the difference between streak and string
is that streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion while string is (countable) a long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.As verbs the difference between streak and string
is that streak is to have or obtain streaks while string is to put (items) on a string.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.
See also
* losing streak * streaker * winning streak * talk a blue streakAnagrams
* * * * * *string
English
Noun
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .
- a violin string
- a bowstring
- a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages
- a string of islands
- The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
- a string of successes
- no strings attached
- (Milton)
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- the strings of beans
- (Ure)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* score string * second stringSynonyms
* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisosDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
