stream
noun
[ striːm ]
• a small, narrow river.
• "a perfect trout stream"
Similar:
brook,
rivulet,
rill,
runnel,
streamlet,
freshet,
river,
watercourse,
tributary,
winterbourne,
burn,
beck,
bourn,
creek,
billabong,
anabranch,
influent,
confluent,
rillet,
brooklet,
runlet,
• a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas.
• "Frank blew out a stream of smoke"
Similar:
jet,
flow,
rush,
gush,
surge,
spurt,
spout,
torrent,
flood,
cascade,
fountain,
outpouring,
outflux,
outflow,
effusion,
current,
efflux,
• a continuous flow of data or instructions, typically one having a constant or predictable rate.
• a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.
• "children in the top streams"
stream
verb
• (of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction.
• "she sat with tears streaming down her face"
Similar:
flow,
pour,
course,
run,
gush,
surge,
spurt,
flood,
cascade,
sluice,
slide,
spill,
slip,
glide,
trickle,
well,
• transmit or receive (data, especially video and audio material) over the internet as a steady, continuous flow.
• put (schoolchildren) in groups of the same age and ability to be taught together.
• "in the coming school year, we were to be streamed"
Origin:
Old English strēam (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stroom, German Strom, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek rhein ‘to flow’.
