Silver Definition–noun | 1. | Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C. | | 2. | coin made of this metal; specie; money: a handful of silver. | | 3. | this metal as a commodity or considered as a currency standard. | | 4. | table articles made of or plated with silver, including flatware and hollowware. | | 5. | any flatware: The kitchen silver is of stainless steel. | | 6. | something resembling this metal in color, luster, etc. | | 7. | a lustrous grayish white or whitish gray, or the color of the metal: the silver of the leaves. | | 8. | any of the silver halides used for photographic purposes, as silver bromide, silver chloride, or silver iodide. | –adjective | 10. | consisting of, made of, or plated with silver. | | 11. | of or pertaining to silver. | | 12. | producing or yielding silver. | | 13. | resembling silver; silvery: the silver moon. | | 14. | clear and soft: silver sounds. | | 15. | eloquent; persuasive: a silver tongue. | | 16. | urging the use of silver as a currency standard: silver economists. | | 17. | indicating the twenty-fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. | | 18. | having the color silver: a silver dress. | –verb (used with object) | 19. | to coat with silver or some silverlike substance. | | 20. | to give a silvery color to. | –verb (used without object) | 21. | t
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Streak Definition–noun | 1. | a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud. | | 2. | a portion or layer of something, distinguished by color or nature from the rest; a vein or stratum: streaks of fat in meat. | | 3. | a vein, strain, or admixture of anything: a streak of humor. | | 4. | Informal. | a. | a spell or run: a streak of good luck. | | b. | an uninterrupted series: The team had a losing streak of ten games. | | | 5. | a flash leaving a visible line or aftereffect, as of lightning; bolt. | | 6. | Mineralogy. the line of powder obtained by scratching a mineral or rubbing it upon a hard, rough white surface, often differing in color from the mineral in the mass, and serving as an important distinguishing character. | | 7. | Plant Pathology. | a. | an elongated, narrow, superficial lesion on stems or leaf veins, becoming brown and necrotic. | | b. | any disease characterized by such lesions. | | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to mark with a streak or streaks; form streaks on: sunlight streaking the water with gold; frost streaking the windows. | | 9. | to lighten or color (strands of hair) for contrastive effect. | | 10. | to dispose, arrange, smear, spread, etc., in the form of a streak or streaks: to streak cold germs on a slide for microscopic study. | –verb (used without object) | 12. | to run, go, or work rapidly. | | 13. | to flash, as lightning. | | 14. | to make a sudden dash in public while naked, esp. as a prank. | —Idiom |
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