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stream

  [streem]
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–noun
1. a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook.
2. a steady current in water, as in a river or the ocean: to row against the stream; the Gulf Stream.
3. any flow of water or other liquid or fluid: streams of blood.
4. a current or flow of air, gas, or the like.
5. a beam or trail of light: A stream of moonlight fell from the clouds.
6. a continuous flow or succession of anything: a stream of words.
7. prevailing direction; drift: the stream of opinion.
–verb (used without object)
8. to flow, pass, or issue in a stream, as water, tears, or blood.
9. to send forth or throw off a stream; run or flow (often fol. 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.
13. to hang in a loose, flowing manner, as long hair.
–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:
bef. 900; (n.) ME streem, OE strēam; c. G Strom, ON straumr; akin to Gk rheîn to flow (see rheum ); (v.) ME streamen, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
streamless, adjective
streamlike, adjective

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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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: stream
Pronunciation: 'strEm
Function: noun
: an unbroken current or flow (as of water, a bodily fluid, a gas, or particles of matter) —seeBLOODSTREAM, MIDSTREAM
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
stream   (strēm)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.

  2. 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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