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What does streak mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word streak? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
  2. A continuous series of like events.
  3. 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.
  4. A moth of the family Geometridae Chesias legatella.
  5. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
  6. (shipbuilding) A strake.
  7. A rung or round of a ladder.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
  2. (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash.)
  3. (transitive) To create streaks.
  4. (transitive) To move very swiftly.
  5. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
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