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[streem]

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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.

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a continuous flow or succession of anything: a stream of words.

prevailing direction; drift: the stream of opinion.

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verb (used without object)

to flow, pass, or issue in a stream, as water, tears, or blood.

to send forth or throw off a stream; run or flow (often followed by with): eyes streaming with tears.

10.

to extend in a beam or in rays, as light: Sunlight streamed in through the windows.

11.

to move or proceed continuously like a flowing stream, as a procession.

12.

to wave or float outward, as a flag in the wind.

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13.

to hang in a loose, flowing manner, as long hair.

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to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.

to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

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verb (used with object)

14.

to send forth or discharge in a stream: The wound streamed blood.

15.

to cause to stream or float outward, as a flag.

16.

Nautical. to place (an object) in the water at the end of a line attached to a vessel.

Idiom

17.

on stream, in or into operation: The factory will be on stream in a month.

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English streem, Old English strēam; cognate with German Strom, Old Norse straumr; akin to Greek rheîn to flow (see rheum); (v.) Middle English streamen, derivative of the noun

Related forms

stream·less, adjective

stream·like, adjective

in·ter·stream, adjective

out·stream, verb (used with object)

un·der·stream, noun

Can be confused: brook, creek, river, stream (see synonym note at the current entry).

Synonyms
1. rill, run, streamlet, runnel. Stream, current refer to a steady flow. In this use they are interchangeable. In the sense of running water, however, a stream is a flow that may be as small as a brook or as large as a river: A number of streams have their sources in mountains. Current refers to the most rapidly moving part of the stream: This river has a swift current. 2. flow, tide. 6. torrent, rush. 8. pour.

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Example Sentences

Forty years ago, this stream had many twists and turns, and the water moved swiftly.

Manufactured goods stream out from here to all corners of the earth.

Netflix cut some deals to allow it to stream films and television shows when its business was small.

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Forty years ago, this stream had many twists and turns, and the water moved swiftly.

Manufactured goods stream out from here to all corners of the earth.

Netflix cut some deals to allow it to stream films and television shows when its business was small.

If there were any hands raised, teach them that stream flow is entirely dependent upon the gradient of the streambed.

In the case of adjacent forest and stream habitats, for example, forests were thought to sustain streams in times of need.

The way even the ducks stood quiet and motionless by the shallow stream that ran across the road where the main street began.

Attractive in woodland or beside pond or stream more add to my plant list enlarge.

When you stream music content from a site, your browser has to download the file and store it for playback.

The comment stream in response to that post can be found here.

It's the slime that makes you slip on rocks while crossing a stream.

Anything else that gets in that data stream is contaminant.

The phenomenon causes a band of upper-level prevailing winds known as the jet stream to move southward.

If one is trying to flow against the stream of social and economic evolution, one's chances of success are poor.

The faster the ring rotated, the less circular the green jet stream became.

Or run a gentle stream of water from the hose into basins or furrows around plants.

It funnels all of the posts from the people you follow on the web into one single stream.

Difficulty starting or maintaining a urinary stream is called urinary hesitancy.

Newbies either get caught up or hurt in the stream of backbiting and invective.

They were outlets for a stream of newsletters, pamphlets, advertising free-sheets and broadsides.

In addition to light, the sun radiates heat and a steady stream of charged particles known as the solar wind.

Rare earths are present in the tailings or waste stream from uranium mines for a start yet they are not extracted.

The falling piston presses the water out of the other side in a constant stream.

Placing windows high on a wall allows light to stream in without sacrificing privacy.

Sometimes it might, but often it means there is something wrong with the one going against the stream.

When it sees one, it issues commands into the data stream that automatically point the player at his victim.

Bright colors for others to see you on your kayak or standing in a stream.

The conclusion: low stream flows might harm aquatic organisms by increasing their exposure to ultraviolet light.

In a minute or so the main street turned right, climbing up a low rise, past a culvert on a small stream.

Good around pools, along stream beds, in bog gardens.

The city is trying to offset a steady stream of race-specific outmigration.

And yet, remarkably, even in the depths of the cold war a stream of human-rights treaties was still being signed.

Despite its name, solar wind is actually a stream of charged particles that expands out from the sun.

Radar gun emits a continuous stream of microwaves at a preset frequency.

One reason for this has been the steady stream of additional donations.

Irrigate once a week or so using a gentle stream of water from the hose or a watering can with a narrow spout.

So basically, in order to not be in the stream of health care commerce, we'd need to be dead.

Recycling is a means of managing elements of the solid waste stream.

The pitot tube will tell you your speed relative to the surrounding air stream.

It would be almost impossible to index all the tributaries and offshoots of his stream of consciousness.

Saguaros crowd the slopes and huge boulders fill the canyon bottom, where a seasonal stream runs.

And our measurements confirm that that stream is contaminated with chemicals from runoff from the mine.

But viewing the work of a stream of contemporary artists has broadened my understanding immensely.

Runoff flows down a wall of alders, maples, and ferns as if gently weeping into the stream below.

The central area along the complete length of a collimated stream carries two conductors spiralled around each other.

The honey runs in a bright amber stream off the frame.

Engineers have developed an efficient torch for blasting garbage with a stream of superheated gas, known as plasma.

Stream restoration is big business, but some scientists are wondering if it is being done right.

May put an end to that, but it gave rise to a new stream of questions, mostly about housing.

If a change in the jet stream really is a leading indicator of solar activity, then no new cycle is on the horizon.

He did this by sectioning off a kilometer-length of stream beneath a vast greenhouse built in the.

Install a meandering stream bordered by boulders to create a framework for integrating.

Normally, when you pour a liquid into a pool of another liquid, the stream plunges right in.

The company must wait eight or nine years to stream many studio films.

We've seen more than a few wireless boomboxes that can stream music from your computer to a set of remote speakers.

They have received a steady stream of praise from teachers their entire conscious lives.

The first is used to generate a random stream of zeros and ones-part of which will form the key.

Your mind hosts a stream of thoughts and sensations.

He was also producing a stream of unsentimental watercolors of country lanes and old houses that found ready buyers.

Just build a dry creek bed that looks as though a rushing stream deposited.

In fact, it will work for any camera which can pump a live video stream into a.

Ravi's video stream is unknown, but a hallmate said word of the situation spread quickly throughout the dormitory.

It might have something to with gender roles, or the steady stream of mixed messages about being a teenage mum.

The nearest road was on the other side of the stream.

Such messages--encoded as electrical impulses--constantly stream through our nervous system.

Amid a never-ending stream of shiny new distractions, sniffing out the truly amazing bits can become a truly daunting task.

Interviewers may be tired to start out with, and interviewing a steady stream of candidates can be exhausting.

Since then, a stream of revelations and allegations has shaken the entire industry.

Wet soils of valleys, often bordering stream banks with cottonwoods.

Presumably this approach will enable the ship to navigate past the jet stream and maintain its position.

It was midwinter, and the stream that ran alongside us was frozen over, forming graceful.

The novel hardware asks the user to strategically vary the strength and location of his urine stream to play a series of games.

Most swaps require each party to pay one stream of cashflow and receive another-in, say, a different currency or interest rate.

Along stream banks and on the floor of open or deep woods, from low to rather high elevations.

The stream of particles varies in temperature and speed over time.

In-line skaters, bicyclists and joggers stream past a flotilla of sailboats tethered in the marina.

And it won't stop and you are giving that revenue stream away for nothing.

The announcement capped a stream of female-friendly policy.

Tiny gold nuggets broke loose and settled at the bottom of the stream.

Using nanorobots injected in to the the blood stream could keep arteries and veins free of blood clots.

Fighting his way to a nearby stream to fetch water, he was cut down.

Kono avoids using toxic chemicals that would run off into her pond and into a small stream that flows to a nearby salmon creek.

If you make it, you will be rewarded with the ability to stream video.

Heck, even non-union tenure stream faculty members are generally protected against this.

They saw the green stream of vegetation draining into the desert.

The back-to-back findings come amid a stream of evidence pointing to genetic rearrangements as key culprits in autism.

The rushing stream snakes in and out of natural caves, some of which can be explored if you.

The unwinding of cross-shareholdings between banks and their chums in the corporate sector also brought a stream of business.

Old stone structures arose from the bottom, and a tiny trickle of a stream ran through.

We went wandering through the woods, and came to a limpid and shallow stream a matter of three yards wide.

It is likely that every stream of a copied show represents a lost viewer on television.

As you gaze out at the view, you see a stream of smoke.

Millions of neurons in all corners of our gray matter send out an endless stream of signals.

And then there are all the guys you encounter at backcountry stream crossings: manly men in manly trucks who.

In order to churn out her continuous stream of money-making fiction, she was a largely absent mother.

Even on a calm day, the sun emits a mighty solar wind, a stream of protons and heavy elements racing through space.

If the prevailing jet stream moves further north or south, the prevailing pattern of precipitation will change to follow the jet.

Cooler gases stream from the disk's upper and lower surfaces, as indicated by colored arrows.

Kiesel came up with a design that emulated a stream bed running through the property without using any actual water.

My argument was conceived in my den before dawn in a stream of consciousness rather than streaming video.

Encourage them to point out natural and human made elements such as a stream or water fountain.

The calories in the ethanol have been removed from the food stream and moved to the fuel stream.

For example, one image showed a tiger by a stream in a forest.

We will host the video stream on our site beginning shortly before the event.

The jet stream had been unusually displaced far to the north, resulting in one of the more calm seasons in decades.

Backlit by the sun, long columns of men dressed in shaggy black robes stream down the mountainsides.

Today only the bruised rib remains as a testament to how much of the stream of consciousness is pure sensation.

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World English Dictionary

stream (striːm)

—n
1.	a small river; brook
2.	any steady flow of water or other fluid
3.	something that resembles a stream in moving continuously in a line or particular direction
4.	a rapid or unbroken flow of speech, etc: a stream of abuse
5.	a flow of money into a business: a revenue stream
6.	(Brit) any of several parallel classes of schoolchildren, or divisions of children within a class, grouped together because of similar ability
7.	go with the stream, drift with the stream to conform to the accepted standards
8.	off stream (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) shut down or not in production
9.	on stream
	a. (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) in or about to go into operation or production
	b. available or in existence

—vb (when intr, often foll by for)
10.	to emit or be emitted in a continuous flow: his nose streamed blood
11.	(intr) to move in unbroken succession, as a crowd of people, vehicles, etc
12.	(intr) to float freely or with a waving motion: bunting streamed in the wind
13.	(tr) to unfurl (a flag, etc)
14.	(intr) to move causing a trail of light, condensed gas, etc, as a jet aircraft
15.	mining to wash (earth, gravel, etc) in running water in prospecting (for gold, etc), to expose the particles of ore or metal
16.	(Brit) education to group or divide (children) in streams

[Old English; related to Old Frisian strām, Old Norse straumr, Old High German stroum, Greek rheuma]

'streamlet

—n

'streamlike

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

stream

O.E. stream "a course of water," from P.Gmc. *straumaz (cf. O.S. strom, O.N. straumr, Dan. strøm, Swed. ström, Norw. straum, O.Fris. stram, Du. stroom, O.H.G. stroum, Ger. Strom "current, river"), from PIE base *sreu- "flow" (see rheum). Meaning "current in the

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sea" (e.g. Gulf Stream) is recorded from late 14c. The verb is attested from early 13c. Streamer "flag that streams in the air" is recorded from late 13c. Stream of consciousness in lit crit first recorded 1931, originally in psychology (1855).

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American Heritage

Science Dictionary

stream (strēm) Pronunciation Key

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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Computing Dictionary

STREAM definition

["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987].
(1995-01-30)

stream definition

1. An abstraction referring to any flow of data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or receiver, consumer). A stream usually flows through a channel of some kind, as opposed to packets which may be addressed and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients. Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a channel or a "connection" between the sender and receiver.
2. In the C language's buffered input/ouput library functions, a stream is associated with a file or device which has been opened using fopen. Characters may be read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently by the library routines.
3. Confusingly, Sun have called their modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS".
4. In IBM's AIX operating system, a stream is a full-duplex processing and data transfer path between a driver in kernel space and a process in user space.
[IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts, SC23-2206-03].
5. streaming.
6. lazy list.
(1996-11-06)

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Idioms & Phrases

stream

see change horses in midstream; swim against the current (stream).

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