streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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(noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
(noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
(noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
(verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
(verb) run naked in a public place | - |
streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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stream | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: flow |
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(noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: current |
(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, flow |
(noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: watercourse |
(noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: flow |
(verb) exude profusely | - |
(verb) flow freely and abundantly | Synonyms: well out |
(verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind | - |
(verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem |
(verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
streambed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream | Synonyms: creek bed |
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streamer | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: banner |
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(noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, waft |
(noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: banner |
(noun) light that streams | - |
streaming | (adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts | - |
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(adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; data that is transmitted and loaded continuously as earlier parts are being accessed/processed/displayed | - |
(noun) the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell | Synonyms: cyclosis |
streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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streamline | (verb) contour economically or efficiently | - |
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streamlined | (adjective) made efficient by stripping off nonessentials | - |
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(adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, sleek |
streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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street | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | - |
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(noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | - |
(noun) people living or working on the same street | - |
(noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | - |
(noun) a situation offering opportunities | - |
streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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strength | (noun) the property of being physically or mentally strong | - |
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(noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strong point, strong suit |
(noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, lastingness |
(noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity, intensity level |
(noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, posture |
(noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, forcefulness |
(noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: effectiveness, potency |
(noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: persuasiveness |
(noun) the condition of financial success | - |
strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
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(verb) gain strength | - |
(verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |
strengthened | (adjective) given added strength or support | Synonyms: reinforced |
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strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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strengthening | (noun) the act of increasing the strength of something | - |
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(noun) becoming stronger | - |
strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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strenuous | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, straining |
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(adjective) characterized by or performed with much energy or force | - |
strenuously | (adverb) in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously | - |
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strenuousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: arduousness |
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strep | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: streptococcal, streptococcic |
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(noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: streptococci, streptococcus |
streptobacillus | (noun) any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria | - |
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streptocarpus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses | - |
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streptococcal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcic |
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streptococci | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: strep, streptococcus |
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streptococcic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcal |
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streptococcus | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: strep, streptococci |
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streptodornase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some hemolytic strains of streptococcus that dissolves fibrinous secretions from infections; used medicinally (often in combination with streptokinase) | - |
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streptokinase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism | - |
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streptolysin | (noun) any of several hemolysins derived from strains of streptococcus | - |
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streptomyces | (noun) aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin) | - |
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streptomycin | (noun) an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis | - |
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streptothricin | (noun) a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete | - |
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stress | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, emphasis |
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(noun) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body | - |
(noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: tenseness, tension |
(noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: strain |
(noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: focus |
(verb) to suffer from stress | - |
(verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate |
(verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, accentuate |
(verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, try |
stressed | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: accented |
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(adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: distressed |
stressful | (adjective) extremely irritating to the nerves | Synonyms: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying |
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stressor | (noun) any agent that causes stress to an organism | - |
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stretch | (adjective) easily stretched | - |
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(adjective) having an elongated seating area | - |
(noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretching |
(noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, reaching |
(noun) extension to or beyond the ordinary limit | - |
(noun) a straightaway section of a racetrack | - |
(noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretchability, stretchiness |
(noun) a large and unbroken expanse or distance | - |
(noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stint |
(verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
(verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
(verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
(verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
(verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
(verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
(verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
(verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
(verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
stretchability | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchiness |
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stretchable | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchy |
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stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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(adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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(noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
(noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
(noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
stretchiness | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchability |
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stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
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(noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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streusel | (noun) a crumbly topping for a pastry | - |
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(noun) pastry with a topping of streusel | - |
strew | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: straw |
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(verb) cover; be dispersed over | - |
strewing | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, scattering |
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