Stream
[striːm] or [strim]
Definition
(noun.) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; 'two streams of development run through American history'; 'stream of consciousness'; 'the flow of thought'; 'the current of history'.
(noun.) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
(noun.) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; 'a stream of people emptied from the terminal'; 'the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors'.
(verb.) exude profusely; 'She was streaming with sweat'; 'His nose streamed blood'.
(verb.) flow freely and abundantly; 'Tears streamed down her face'.
(verb.) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; 'their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind'.
Checker: Tina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
(n.) A beam or ray of light.
(n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
(n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
(n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
(v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
(v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
(v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
(v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
(v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
(v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
(v. t.) To unfurl.
Typist: Sam
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Current, course, flow, rush, tide.[2]. River, rivulet, brook, run.
v. n. [1]. Flow, run, glide, pour.[2]. Issue, radiate, go forth.[3]. Extend, stretch out.
Edited by Augustus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Current, course, flow, exit, drift, tide, tendency
ANT:Stagnation, desistance, arrestation, station, standstill, stillness, halting,cessation, stopping, interruption
Typed by Laverne
Definition
n. a current of water air or light &c.: anything flowing out from a source: anything forcible flowing and continuous: drift tendency.—v.i. to flow in a stream: to pour out abundantly: to be overflown with: to issue in rays: to stretch in a long line.—v.t. to discharge in a stream: to wave.—ns. Stream′er an ensign or flag streaming or flowing in the wind: a luminous beam shooting upward from the horizon; Stream′-gold placer-gold the gold of alluvial districts; Stream′-ice pieces of drift ice swept down in a current; Stream′iness streamy quality; Stream′ing the working of alluvial deposits for the ores contained.—adj. Stream′less not watered by streams.—ns. Stream′let Stream′ling a little stream; Stream′-tin disintegrated tin-ore found in alluvial ground.—adj. Stream′y abounding in streams: flowing in a stream.
Checker: Melanie
Examples
- He could see a trail through the grass where horses had been led to the stream to drink and there was the fresh manure of several horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan heard the stream, far down in the rocks, and he saw a faint, thin smoke that rose from the sentry box. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But as he looked the structure of the bridge was still spidery and fine in the mist that hung over the stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A few of our cavalry dashed in, and forded and swam the stream, and all opposition was soon dispersed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The moon is rising, and where she sits there is a little stream of cold pale light, in which her head is seen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This machine contains a number of rotating beaters and high-pressure streams of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In many regions, especially in the neighborhood of streams, water can be found ten or fifteen feet below the surface. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These discoveries, added to the long observed fact of coal oil floating on streams in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, led to the search for its natural source. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- So that two mutually dangerous streams of anticipation were running through the minds of men in Western Europe towards the end of the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Special provision was also made for injecting streams of pulverized coal in such manner as to create the largely extended zone of combustion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All the streams abounded with fish. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Horsemen were streaming off in every direction, and the clatter of empty wagons being driven off almost drowned the sound of that terrible singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The little drawing-room was looking its best in the streaming light of the morning sun. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They dissolved into a vast multitude of fugitives streaming under great dust clouds and without a single rally across the hot plain towards Arbela. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Near this stood Caliphronas, and the red light streaming on his statuesque face, his white garb, made him a very striking figure. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And, with streaming eyes and choking voice, the black man looked up to heaven. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was soon streaming blood from a half dozen minor wounds, but I could not obtain an opening to deliver an effective thrust. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Then comes Tana, shrieking and holding tight her side from which blood is streaming. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Tears streamed from my eyes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Five o'clock struck, and time stole on; still the clouds streamed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As fast, but more quietly than before, the warm rain streamed down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I lacked not words now; fast I narrated; fluent I told my tale; it streamed on my tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then they streamed ashore, clamouring as if they had come from America. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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