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stream
[ streem ]
noun
- a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook.
- a steady current in water, as in a river or the ocean:
to row against the stream;
the Gulf Stream.
- any flow of water or other liquid or fluid:
streams of blood.
- a current or flow of air, gas, or the like.
- a beam or trail of light:
A stream of moonlight fell from the clouds.
- a continuous flow or succession of anything:
a stream of words.
- prevailing direction; drift:
the stream of opinion.
- Digital Technology.
- a flow of data, as an audio broadcast, a movie, or live video, transmitted smoothly and continuously from a source to a computer, mobile device, etc.
verb (used without object)
- to flow, pass, or issue in a stream, as water, tears, or blood.
Synonyms: pour
- to send forth or throw off a stream; run or flow (often followed by with ):
eyes streaming with tears.
- to extend in a beam or in rays, as light:
Sunlight streamed in through the windows.
- to move or proceed continuously like a flowing stream, as a procession.
- to wave or float outward, as a flag in the wind.
- to hang in a loose, flowing manner, as long hair.
verb (used with object)
- to send forth or discharge in a stream:
The wound streamed blood.
- to cause to stream or float outward, as a flag.
- Digital Technology.
- to transfer or transmit (data) in such a way that it is processed in a steady and continuous stream:
Internet service providers are talking about setting limits on the amount of data that can be streamed into your home.
- Nautical. to place (an object) in the water at the end of a line attached to a vessel.
stream
/ striːm /
noun
- a small river; brook
- any steady flow of water or other fluid
- something that resembles a stream in moving continuously in a line or particular direction
- a rapid or unbroken flow of speech, etc
a stream of abuse
- a flow of money into a business
a revenue stream
- any of several parallel classes of schoolchildren, or divisions of children within a class, grouped together because of similar ability
- go with the streamgo with the streamdrift with the stream to conform to the accepted standards
- off streamoff stream (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) shut down or not in production
- on streamon stream
- (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) in or about to go into operation or production
- available or in existence
verb
- to emit or be emitted in a continuous flow
his nose streamed blood
- intr to move in unbroken succession, as a crowd of people, vehicles, etc
- intr to float freely or with a waving motion
bunting streamed in the wind
- tr to unfurl (a flag, etc)
- intr to move causing a trail of light, condensed gas, etc, as a jet aircraft
- whenintr, often foll by for mining to wash (earth, gravel, etc) in running water in prospecting (for gold, etc), to expose the particles of ore or metal
- education to group or divide (children) in streams
stream
/ strēm /
- A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
- A flow of a watery substance, such as blood in blood vessels or cytoplasm in fungal hyphae, in an organism or in part of an organism.
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Derived Forms
- ˈstreamˌlike, adjective
- ˈstreamlet, noun
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Other Words From
- streamless adjective
- streamlike adjective
- inter·stream adjective
- outstream verb (used with object)
- under·stream noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stream1
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Idioms and Phrases
- on stream, in or into operation:
The factory will be on stream in a month.
More idioms and phrases containing stream
see change horses in midstream ; swim against the current (stream) .Discover More
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Example Sentences
But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.
The marchers began to stream out of the park, where they walked West on 110th and then hung a right on 7th Avenue.
Stream House of Cards and other Netflix originals right from the Hopper.
Slow at first, then steadily, a stream of liquid drips off the incision.
Take responsibility for an endless stream of people, even as our own suffer, and struggle to get policy relief from Washington.
The very stream that went through it flowed sluggishly along, and as if it hadn't any particular object in life.
This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.
He felt that all her force, like a strong and ardent stream, was flowing into the new channel which he had cut for her.
One heavily-laden boat was dragged into the stream, and a few officers and men clambered on board.
His expletives were varied, vivid and inexhaustible, and the turbid stream was easily set flowing.
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