Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

restreak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-streak
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To repeat a streaking procedure

noun

A repeat streaking procedure

Example Sentences

"Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated […]."
"With GR and GR 526, all transformants yielded blue colonies and gave rise only to blue colonies on restreaking."
"The cells were restreaked on minimal medium."
"Cells […] did not senesce after five successive restreaks at 23°C (23 )."
"These phenotypes diminished during successive restreaks; after ~75 generations, the colony and cell morphology appeared to be wild type[…]."

Etymology

From re- + streak.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Inflected Forms

restreaks (present, singular) restreaking (participle, present) restreaked (participle, past) restreaked (past) restreaks (plural)

Questions

What does restreak mean?: To repeat a streaking procedure
Where does restreak come from?: From re- + streak.

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