streak
/stɹiːk/ nom C1En français : chésias du genêt, raie
- An irregular line, as is left from smearing or motion. · The picture I took out the car window had streaks.
- A band, line or stripe. · A streak of light on the horizon.
- A continuous series of like events. · I hope I can keep up this streak of accomplishments.· I was on a winning streak until the fourth game, when I was dealt terrible cards.
- A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
- A consistent facet of somebody's personality. · a mean streak· a stubborn streak
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one. · She's a quiet, bookish person, but she has a rebellious streak.
- 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, Chesias legatella. · Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pluriel streaks
Dans la bibliothèque
Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color--a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
Soon a red streak became visible in the horizon, the waves whitened, a light played over them, and gilded their foaming crests with gold.
The last red streaks had faded away in the west and night had settled upon the moor.
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