Toddle vs Streak - What's the difference?
toddle | streak | Related terms |
To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
To walk in a carefree manner.
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.
Toddle is a related term of streak.
As verbs the difference between toddle and streak
is that toddle is to walk unsteadily, as a small child does while streak is to have or obtain streaks.As a noun streak is
an irregular line left from smearing or motion.toddle
English
Verb
- There he was, just toddling along.
Synonyms
* totterDerived terms
* toddler * toddle offstreak
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.