0 past simple and past participle of streak
1 to move somewhere extremely quickly, usually in a straight line:
2 to run naked through a public place in order to attract attention or to express strong disapproval of something
3 to have long, thin noticeable lines of a different colour:
Plates were checked daily for bacterial growth, and colonies tentatively identified as bartonella (based on colony morphology) were streaked onto clean plates.
They were provided with undiluted honey streaked on the tube wall.
When the curved flow switches from one side of the cylinder t>othe other, the vertical streaked flow structure becomes obscure.
The streaked plates were held for 15 days and observed for the recovery of target organisms.
They were fed honey that was streaked on the tube wall.
The isolates were then streaked on sterile media plates and observed for growth of the test fungal species.
The distance between adjacent streaked flows are variable.
Positive recoveries of the target fungal species in large colonies were observed on plates streaked with faecal washings.