stream
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
education
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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”), Faroese streymur (“stream”), 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: streams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: streams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: streaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: streamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: streamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
pos: noun
examples: 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:[…].
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.
gloss: All moving waters.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
pos: noun
examples: He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
gloss: Current, the force of moving water.
pos: noun
examples: to swim against the stream
gloss: Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
pos: noun
examples: Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
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.
A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.
gloss: A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
gloss: A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
pos: noun
examples: If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.
gloss: Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
pos: noun
gloss: A division of a school year by perceived ability.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.
gloss: A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
pos: noun
examples: Not to switch streams, but we really need to focus on talking about the economy right now...
gloss: To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: beneath those banks where rivers now stream
When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.
gloss: To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A flag streams in the wind.
gloss: To discharge in a stream.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The soldier's wound was streaming blood.
gloss: To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
gloss: To livestream.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I wondered if that's what's affecting me and making me want to do this. And it's not.
Derived words: activity stream
airstream
astream
backstream
bitstream
bloodstream
chalk stream
change horses in mid-stream
clickstream
codestream
costream
counterstream
cross the streams
data stream
destream
distream
downstream
feedstream
filestream
first order stream
float with the stream
forestream
freestream
Gulf Stream
headstream
hillstream
instream
interstream
jet stream
keystream
lame-stream
lifestream
live stream
mainstream
microstream
middlestream
midstream
mid-stream
millstream
mill stream
mindstream
misfit stream
multistream
news stream
on stream
onstream
outstream
overfit stream
overstream
photostream
prairie stream
Red Stream
Running Stream
second order stream
sidestream
single-stream
star stream
streambait
streambank
streambed
stream bed
stream cable
stream cipher
stream clock
streamcruiser
stream deck
streamer
streamflow
streamful
stream function
stream gauge
stream graph
streamgraph
stream ice
stream key
streamless
streamlet
streamlike
streamling
stream of consciousness
stream orchid
stream pool
stream processing
streamribbon
streamscape
streamside
stream snipe
stream sniper
stream sniping
stream straightener
streamsurface
stream tin
streamtube
streamwater
streamway
stream wheel
streamwise
streamwork
stream-work
streamworks
substream
third order stream
third stream
tidal stream
timestream
time stream
underfit stream
understream
upstream
video stream
wastestream
waterstream
webstream
wind-stream
wind stream
workstream
bestream
live-stream
livestream
restream
streamable
streamline
streamstyle
stream the buoy
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