stream

UK /stɹiːm/ US /stɹiːm/
noun 5verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

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.

2

All moving waters.

3

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.

4

Current, the force of moving water.

to swim against the stream

5

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

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.

verb

1

To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

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.

2

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

A flag streams in the wind.

3

To discharge in a stream.

The soldier's wound was streaming blood.

4

To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

5

To livestream.

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.

name

1

A surname.

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