streamline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stream
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
English streamline
From stream + line.
Inflected forms:
form: streamlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: streamlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: streamlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: streamlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: streamlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
pos: noun
gloss: On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
pos: noun
gloss: To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The J's originally were streamlined after the style of the New Haven's 1400- class 4-6-4's and were considered by many to be a handsome locomotive. A program to gradually destreamline the class began in April 1947.
gloss: To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: The subcommittee concludes FDA should become less involved in the early stages of clinical research by streamlining and uncumbering its regulations governing them.
This structure organizes and streamlines theme development to create a solid ground for themers (theme developers) to further build and extend, much like in object-oriented programming.
A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.
Mr. Manchin has insisted that legislation to streamline the permitting of fossil fuel and energy infrastructure projects, including the West Virginia pipeline, be tied to the spending measure, which is expected to keep the government funded through mid-December.
In 2021, Egypt recategorized nurseries as micro-, small- and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which provides greater business benefits, including tax markdowns, and in 2024, Jordan streamlined the registration process for home-based nurseries, making it simpler to start a child-minding business from home.
Robert F Kennedy Jr said the nation’s health agencies will cut 10,000 jobs from their 82,000-person workforce – an enormous reduction the US health secretary characterized as streamlining federal bureaucracy amid internal resistance to the administration’s agenda.
gloss: To modernize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: destreamline
Related words: streakline
pathline
streamstyle
Derived words: hyperstreamline
restreamline
streamlinable
unstreamline
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: stroomlijn
lang: Finnish
word: virtaviiva
lang: Macedonian
word: струјница
roman: strujnica
lang: Polish
word: linia opływowa
lang: Russian
word: ли́ния обтека́ния
roman: línija obtekánija
lang: Russian
word: ли́ния возду́шного пото́ка
roman: línija vozdúšnovo potóka
lang: Vietnamese
word: đường dòng