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streak

noun
  1. A slight amount or indication: breath, dash, ghost, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, touch, trace, whiff, whisper. Informal: whisker. See big, show
  2. An intermixture of a contrasting or unexpected quality, especially in a person's character: strain 2, vein. See be
  3. Informal. A number of things placed or occurring one after the other: chain, consecution, course, order, procession, progression, round, run, sequence, series, string, succession, suite, train. See order
verb
To mark with a line or band, as of different color or texture: striate, stripe, variegate. See marks

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