📖 S — The English dictionary · page 102

strawberry — Everyday, meaning 1: A strawberry is a small red sweet fruit with tiny seeds on its outside and green leaves on top.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strawberry plant grows low on the ground and sends out runners.↗ Example: Marco picked 25 pounds of strawberries.↗ · His dad picked 18 pounds.↗ · How many pounds did they pick together?↗ · She ate 12 strawberries.↗ · We made strawberry jam.↗ · Strawberries and cream are eaten at Wimbledon.↗ · Wash the strawberries before you eat them.↗ · The strawberry plants sent out runners.↗ · Each box holds 2 pounds of strawberries.↗ · A strawberry has about 200 seeds on its skin.↗ · Actually, ripe strawberries! which came quite red and sweet up under the snow.↗

strawman — Everyday, meaning 1: (logic) A strawman is an unfair trick in an argument: you change the other person's idea into a weaker or sillier version and then attack that instead of what they really said.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A straw man is also a figure made of straw, like a scarecrow or a dummy for practice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A straw man can be a person used to hide who is really behind something.↗ Example: Saying I hate all vegetables because I don't like peas is a strawman.↗ · "You want less homework, so you don't care about learning!" — that's a strawman argument.↗ · Politicians sometimes attack a strawman instead of the real idea.↗ · The scarecrow was a straw man stuffed with hay.↗ · Don't strawman my point; listen to what I actually said.↗ · Our debate coach taught us to spot strawman arguments.↗ · Knights practised with their lances on a straw man.↗

stray — Everyday, meaning 1: A stray animal is a pet like a dog or cat that is lost or has no home.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stray is such a lost or homeless animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To stray is to wander away from where you should be, like straying from a path.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Stray can describe one thing that is away from the others, like a stray hair or a stray sock.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A stray shot is a bullet or shot that goes wide of its target and hits something by accident.↗ Example: A stray dog followed us home.↗ · Animal shelters look after strays.↗ · Don't stray from the path in the woods.↗ · The sheep had strayed into the road.↗ · She brushed a stray hair off her face.↗ · I found a stray sock under the bed.↗ · Never stroke a stray cat; it might scratch.↗ · Another's stray shot had killed the deer.↗ · On what part will ye yet be stricken, seeing ye stray away more and more?↗ (Prophets ISA.1.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Woe unto them! for they have strayed from Me; Destruction unto them! for they have transgressed against Me; Shall I then redeem them, seeing they have spoken lies against Me?↗ (Prophets HOS.7.13, JPS 1917)↗

straying — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray.↗ Example: And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.↗ (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917)↗

streak — Everyday, meaning 1: A streak is a long, thin line or mark of a different colour, like a streak of paint or a streak of lightning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A streak is a run of the same result many times in a row, like a winning streak.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A streak in someone's character is a small part of it, like a mean streak or a stubborn streak.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To streak is to move very fast, or to mark with streaks.↗ Example: There was a streak of blue paint on her cheek.↗ · A streak of lightning lit up the sky.↗ · Our team is on a five-game winning streak.↗ · The cat streaked across the garden.↗ · Tears streaked his muddy face.↗ · She has a kind streak, though she seems strict.↗ · A shooting star streaked across the night sky.↗ · Real tears washed brown streaks across his red-painted cheeks.↗ · And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.↗ (Torah GEN.30.39, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.↗ (Torah GEN.30.37, JPS 1917)↗ · If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.↗ (Torah GEN.31.8, JPS 1917)↗

streaky — Everyday, meaning 1: Streaky means having streaks: long thin lines or marks of a different colour, often uneven: streaky windows, streaky hair dye.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Ireland, Australia) Streaky bacon is bacon with stripes of fat and meat, cut from the belly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, sport) Streaky means not steady, sometimes very good and sometimes bad; in cricket, a streaky shot is a lucky edge.↗ Example: I cleaned the window, but it's still streaky.↗ · The paint dried streaky because I used too little.↗ · Dad made sandwiches with streaky bacon.↗ · Her fake tan went a bit streaky.↗ · The sky was streaky with pink clouds.↗ · His batting is streaky: one week great, the next week awful.↗ · That was a streaky four off the edge of the bat.↗

stream — Everyday, meaning 1: A stream is a small, narrow river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stream is a continuous flow of something, like a stream of water, cars or people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To stream means to flow continuously.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To stream video or music means to play it straight from the internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In some schools, a stream is a group of pupils of similar level.↗ Example: We paddled in the stream.↗ · The stream flows into the river.↗ · Never try to cross a fast stream after heavy rain.↗ · Don't drink water straight from a stream.↗ · A stream of people came out of the stadium.↗ · Tears streamed down his cheeks.↗ · We streamed the film on the TV.↗ · Light streamed through the window.↗ · He leaped into the deep, swift stream.↗ · And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.↗ (Torah GEN.32.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the dry land.↗ (Writings PSA.126.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul; (Writings PSA.124.4, JPS 1917)↗ · But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.↗ (Prophets AMO.5.24, JPS 1917)↗

streamer — Everyday, meaning 1: A streamer is a long, narrow strip of coloured paper or ribbon used to decorate for parties and celebrations.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A streamer is a person who streams live video online, for example playing video games while people watch.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A streamer can be a long flag or ribbon that streams out in the wind, such as on a kite or a bike handlebar.↗ Example: We hung red and gold streamers for the party.↗ · The bike had colourful streamers on the handlebars.↗ · My cousin watches a gaming streamer every evening.↗ · The streamer said hello to his viewers.↗ · The kite had a long streamer for a tail.↗ · Paper streamers fell from the ceiling at midnight.↗ · She wants to be a streamer when she grows up.↗ · Never tell a streamer's chat where you live.↗

streamline — Everyday, meaning 1: To streamline something is to give it a smooth, slim shape so it moves easily through air or water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To streamline a job or a system is to make it simpler and quicker by removing unneeded steps.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, noun) A streamline is a line showing the path air or water takes as it flows around something.↗ Example: A dolphin's body is streamlined so it swims fast.↗ · Racing cars are streamlined to cut through the air.↗ · We made streamlined paper boats and tested them in the water tray.↗ · The school streamlined the lunch queue so everyone eats sooner.↗ · Cyclists crouch low to make themselves more streamlined.↗ · Mum streamlined her morning by packing bags the night before.↗ · The new train has a streamlined nose.↗

streamlining — Everyday, meaning 1: making something simpler and more efficient.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (euphemism, business) cutting jobs or services.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) shaping something so it moves easily through air or water.↗ Example: The company announced streamlining, and two hundred jobs went.↗ · Fish and dolphins have a streamlined shape.↗ · We streamlined the morning routine so we leave earlier.↗ · The council's streamlining closed two libraries.↗ · In science we tested which shape was most streamlined.↗ · Streamlining the form made it much quicker to fill in.↗

street — Everyday, meaning 1: A street is a road in a town or city with houses, shops or buildings on its sides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Street» is part of many addresses: «24 High Street».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «The streets» can mean the town outside, with its people.↗ Example: There are 30 houses on the street.↗ · Lamps stand every 10 m along the street.↗ · The street is 500 m long.↗ · How many houses on both sides?↗ · My friend lives across the street.↗ · Look both ways before you cross the street.↗ · Houses on one side of the street have odd numbers.↗ · We had a street party with music and food.↗ · They passed out into the street.↗ · 7, Duke Street, Adelphi, London, W.C, (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Womem's Prixting Society, Ltd., 66, Whitcomb Street, W.C.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.↗ (Writings LAM.4.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.↗ (Writings PRO.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets, she uttereth her voice in the broad places; (Writings PRO.1.20, JPS 1917)↗

streetlight — Everyday, meaning 1: A tall lamp on a pole beside a road that lights up the street at night.↗ Example: The streetlights came on as it got dark.↗ · We waited under the streetlight for Dad.↗ · My mum says I must be home when the streetlights come on.↗ · The broken streetlight made the corner very dark.↗ · The road has a streetlight every 30 metres.↗ · Moths were flying around the streetlight.↗ · Walk on well-lit streets with streetlights at night.↗

strength — Everyday, meaning 1: Strength is how strong someone or something is: the power of muscles to lift and push.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strength is how much force something can take without breaking: the strength of a rope or bridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Your strengths are the things you are good at.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Strength can mean courage and the power to keep going when things are hard.↗ Example: Climbing helps build strength in your arms.↗ · We tested the strength of three kinds of paper.↗ · My strengths are reading and drawing.↗ · It took all my strength to open the jar.↗ · She showed great strength when her grandma was ill.↗ · The strength of the wind knocked over the bins.↗ · The team went from strength to strength.↗ · Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.↗ (Torah DEU.33.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.↗ (Torah GEN.49.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.↗ (Torah EXO.15.13, JPS 1917)↗ · So his strength was not known.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Hast thou given the horse his strength?↗ (Writings JOB.39.19, JPS 1917)↗ · O my soul, tread them down with strength.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.21, JPS 1917)↗

strengthen — Everyday, meaning 1: To strengthen something is to make it stronger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To strengthen is to become stronger.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To strengthen a feeling, idea or friendship is to make it firmer or more certain.↗ Example: Swimming strengthens your arms and legs.↗ · We strengthened the paper bridge with triangles.↗ · The wind strengthened during the night.↗ · Working together strengthened our friendship.↗ · Milk helps to strengthen bones and teeth.↗ · The builders strengthened the old wall with steel bars.↗ · Her kind words strengthened my courage.↗ · The new evidence strengthened the detective's idea.↗ · You must be needing something to strengthen you after that turn.’↗ · And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.'↗ And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.↗ (Torah GEN.48.2, JPS 1917)↗ · But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.'↗ (Torah DEU.3.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.↗ (Prophets ISA.35.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.↗ (Writings JOB.4.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.↗ (Writings 2CH.17.1, JPS 1917)↗

strenuous — Everyday, meaning 1: Strenuous means needing a lot of effort, energy or strength: a strenuous climb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strenuous can describe very determined effort: strenuous efforts to save the forest.↗ Example: The climb up the mountain was strenuous.↗ · Avoid strenuous exercise after a big meal.↗ · After the strenuous match, we were exhausted.↗ · Volunteers made strenuous efforts to clean the beach.↗ · Moving house is strenuous work.↗ · The doctor said no strenuous activity for a week.↗

strep — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Strep is short for streptococcus, a kind of bacteria that can cause illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strep, or strep throat, is a sore throat caused by these bacteria, with fever and pain when swallowing, which doctors may treat with antibiotics.↗ Example: I had strep throat and missed two days of school.↗ · The doctor did a quick strep test with a swab.↗ · Strep is caused by bacteria, not a virus.↗ · She took antibiotics for her strep.↗ · Don't share water bottles if someone has strep.↗ · The nurse said there was strep going around the class.↗