streak

/striːk/ verb

Translation

streak across/down/through, etc › to move quickly

hızlıca hareket etmek

The plane streaked across the sky.1613

be streaked with sth › to have thin lines of a different colour

farklı renklerde çizgilerden oluşmak; gölgeli/çizgili/yol yol olmak

His dark hair was lightly streaked with grey.1331

(Definition of streak verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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