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streak

1. in. to move rapidly from one place to another. The train streaked into the station and came to a stop just inches from the end of the track.
2. in. to run about in a public place naked. This kid was streaking back and forth until the cops caught him.
3. tv. to grace or ornament a public place or event with a naked run. Charles streaked the baseball game, but nobody noticed him.
4. n. a naked run in a public place. (see also streaker.) There was a streak at the end of the game, but people were leaving then and didn’t see it.
5. n. an exciting time; a wild party. We had a streak at Tom’s.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The effect of different levels of leaf development on streaking was examined in two leaf sections: "middle", relatively mature at time of infestation and "lower", unemerged at time of infestation.
We tested the effect of numbers of RWA and duration of infestation on streaking. Either one or three adult RWA were confined to a cage on an expanding leaf for 1, 2, or 3 d.
Therefore, the width of a barley leaf is relatively uniform along a large portion of the blade and streaking measurements need only to be across the width.
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Samples molded on the upgraded equipment showed no evidence of the star-patterned streaking observed when processing with the original equipment.
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