streaking
縞模様の
解説 Definition
streaking は streak（筋をつける、筋状に広がる）の現在分詞です。形容詞的には、細い線や縞のような模様が走っている様子を表します。
Forming, showing, or extending in long, narrow lines or bands across a surface or area. In this adjectival use, it describes clouds, colors, marks, or patterns that appear as visible streaks.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
streaking は streak「筋を付ける、筋状に走る」に -ing を付けた形で、形容詞的には線や縞が長く伸びる様子を表します。streaking clouds「筋状に伸びる雲」、streaking lines「走るような細線」と覚えましょう。面全体ではなく、細長い跡が横切る視覚像が核です。
Streaking is formed from streak plus -ing. Here it works adjectivally, describing something that forms or shows long, narrow lines. Picture gray bands running through white marble or thin clouds stretching across an evening sky. The important visual feature is not a broad, even area of color but a series of elongated marks crossing it. Learn it through combinations such as streaking clouds, streaking lines, and streaking patterns. This keeps the intended patterned sense separate from unrelated uses of the same spelling.
例文
The artist painted streaking lines across the blue background.
画家は青い背景に縞のような線を描きました。
Streaking clouds covered the evening sky.
夕空には筋状の雲が広がっていました。
The marble had streaking gray patterns through its white surface.
その大理石の白い表面には、灰色の縞模様が入っていました。
streaking の類義語・関連語
streaking の語源・成り立ち Etymology
streaking は streak「筋・縞」+ -ing で、streak は古英語 strica「線、ひと筆の跡」にさかのぼります。原義が「細く引かれた線」なので、そこから「縞の入った」「筋模様のある」という意味が自然に生まれました。関連語は strike, stroke。
Streaking is the -ing form of streak, a word traced to Old English strica, meaning a line, stroke, or mark made by a single movement. The older sense of a narrow drawn mark remains central to the modern adjective-like use. Adding -ing presents the lines as forming, extending, or visibly running across something. Streak has historically been associated with Germanic vocabulary for striking or making a stroke, although the exact relationships among these words are complex.
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