stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: strēm
ipa: /stɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: streams
Etymology: From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian Stroom, struum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).
Senses: examples: text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
glosses: A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
topics: sciences
qualifier: umbrella term
glosses: All moving waters.
examples: text: He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
glosses: A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
examples: text: to swim against the stream
glosses: Current, the force of moving water.
examples: text: Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
text: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.
ref: 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
examples: text: Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
glosses: A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
examples: text: In the context of computer science, lexical analysis can be defined as the conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
examples: text: If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.
ref: 2023 May 3, Courtney Young, “13 Shows to Binge When ‘Succession’ Ends”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
An instance of streaming digital data.
glosses: Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
A live stream.
examples: text: All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.
topics: education
glosses: A division of a school year by perceived ability.
examples: text: Not to switch streams, but we really need to focus on talking about the economy right now...
glosses: A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
Synonyms: sense: small river
word: beck
sense: small river
word: brook
sense: small river
word: burn
Hyponyms: sense: small river
word: rill
sense: moving water
word: river
Derived terms: activity stream
airstream
chalk stream
change horses in mid-stream
cross the streams
data stream
downstream
first order stream
float with the stream
Gulf Stream
jet stream
lame-stream
live stream
midstream
mid-stream
mill stream
misfit stream
news stream
on stream
onstream
overfit stream
prairie stream
Red Stream
second order stream
single-stream
star stream
stream bed
stream cable
stream cipher
stream clock
stream deck
streamer
stream function
stream gauge
stream graph
stream ice
stream key
streamlet
streamling
stream of consciousness
stream orchid
stream pool
stream processing
stream snipe
stream sniper
stream sniping
stream straightener
stream tin
stream wheel
stream-work
third order stream
third stream
tidal stream
time stream
underfit stream
upstream
video stream
wind stream
wind-stream