STREAKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streaked mean? 

• STREAKED (adjective)
  The adjective STREAKED has 1 sense:

1. marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations

  Familiarity information: STREAKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREAKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations

Synonyms:

streaked; streaky

Context example:

fat legs and dirty streaky faces

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

“Seven yards windage, Hal,” said one, whose hair was streaked with gray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A method to determine microbial susceptibility to antibiotics in which an agar plate, which has a concentration gradient of the drug within the agar, is streaked with the microorganism of interest.

(Gradient Diffusion Method, NCI Thesaurus)

There are also piebald, speckle-streaked, or harlequin varieties.

(Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)

It is, as he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her face, too, was streaked with grime, and at the best she could never have been handsome, for she had the exact physical characteristics which Holmes had divined, with, in addition, a long and obstinate chin.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne gave his staff a merry flourish, however, and the red deer bethought him that the King was far off, so streaked away from whence he came.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the dark knight with gray-streaked beard?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His beard, streaked thickly with gray, bristled forward from his chin, and spoke of a passionate nature, while the long, finely cut face and firm mouth marked the leader of men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face, however, was tanned of a dull yellow tint, with a leathery, poreless look, which spoke of rough outdoor doings, and the little pointed beard which he wore, in deference to the prevailing fashion, was streaked and shot with gray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)