streaming

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

stream

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).

streaming stream·ing (strē'mĭng)
n.
Streaming movement.

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.

streaming definition

communications
Playing sound or video in real time as it is downloaded over the Internet as opposed to storing it in a local file first. A plug-in to a web browser such as Netscape Navigator decompresses and plays the data as it is transferred to your computer over the World-Wide Web. Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in downloading an entire file and then playing it with a helper application. Streaming requires a fast connection and a computer powerful enough to execute the decompression algorithm in real time.
(1996-11-06)