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Striate vs Strake - What's the difference?

striate | strake |

As verbs the difference between striate and strake

is that striate is to mark something with striations while strake is (obsolete) to stretch [akin to old english: streccan] or strake can be (obsolete) (strike).

As an adjective striate

is striated.

As a noun strake is

(obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.

striate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To mark something with striations.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • striated.

    • Anagrams

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    strake

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.
  • *
  • (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
  • (nautical, archaic) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
    • ::
  • (engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
  • A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
  • (obsolete) A streak.
    • (Spenser)
    Usage notes
    * (nautical) The planks or plates next to the keel are called the garboard strakes''; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the ''bilge strakes''; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the ''wales''; and the upper parts of the sides, the ''sheer strakes .

    Verb

    (strak)
  • (obsolete) To stretch [akin to Old English: streccan].

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (strike)
    • (Spenser)

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