The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stream \Stream\, v. t.
   To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to
   pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
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         It may so please that she at length will stream
         Some dew of grace into my withered heart. --Spenser.
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   2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
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            The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon.
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   3. To unfurl. --Shak.
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   To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries.
   str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum,
   str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth,
   Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to
   flow, Skr. sru. [root]174. Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea,
   Rheum, Rhythm.]
   1. 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.
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   2. A beam or ray of light. "Sun streams." --Chaucer.
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   3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of
      parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The
      stream of beneficence." --Atterbury. "The stream of
      emigration." --Macaulay.
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   4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
      "The very stream of his life." --Shak.
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   5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving
      causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
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   Gulf stream. See under Gulf.

   Stream anchor, Stream cable. (Naut.) See under Anchor,
      and Cable.

   Stream ice, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in
      some definite direction.

   Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in
      alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is
      the principal agent used in separating the ore from the
      sand and gravel.

   Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial
      deposit of tin ore is worked. --Ure.

   To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the
      current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or
      check it.
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   Syn: Current; flow; rush; tide; course.

   Usage: Stream, Current. These words are often properly
          interchangeable; but stream is the broader word,
          denoting a prevailing onward course. The stream of the
          Mississippi rolls steadily on to the Gulf of Mexico,
          but there are reflex currents in it which run for a
          while in a contrary direction.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Streamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Streaming.]
   1. 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.
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            Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.
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   2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
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            A thousand suns will stream on thee.  --Tennyson.
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   3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
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   4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in
      the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stream
    n 1: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the
         earth [syn: stream, watercourse]
    2: 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" [syn: stream, flow,
       current]
    3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression [syn:
       flow, stream]
    4: 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"
       [syn: stream, flow]
    5: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the
       raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
       air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current,
       stream]
    v 1: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their
         manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
    2: exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose
       streamed blood"
    3: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
       theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour,
       swarm, stream, teem, pullulate]
    4: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
       [syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain
       buckets]
    5: flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
       [syn: stream, well out]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

424 Moby Thesaurus words for "stream":
   Brownian movement, X ray, Zeitgeist, abound, abundance,
   actinic ray, actinism, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion,
   air current, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude,
   angular motion, appear, arise, ascend, ascending, ascent, assemble,
   atomic beam, atomic ray, avalanche, axial motion, back, back up,
   backflowing, backing, backward motion, backwash, barrage, beam,
   beam of light, bearing, beck, become manifest, become visible,
   bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, branch, bristle with, brook,
   brooklet, budge, bumper crop, bunch, bunch up, burn, caravan,
   career, cascade, cataract, cavalcade, chain, change, change place,
   channel, circle, climb, climbing, clot, cluster, collect, column,
   come, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come out,
   come to hand, come to light, come together, commute, concourse,
   condensation trail, confluence, conflux, congregate, contrail,
   converge, copiousness, copulate, cortege, couple, course,
   cover ground, crawl with, creek, creep with, crop out,
   crosscurrent, crowd, current, current of air, date, defluxion,
   deluge, descend, descending, descent, direction, downdraft,
   downflow, downpour, downward motion, draft, dress parade, drift,
   driftage, drizzle, drum, ebb, ebbing, effluence, efflux, effusion,
   emanate, emerge, enter, exhaust, extravagance, exuberance,
   exuberate, fade in, fall, fall wind, fare, fare forth, fertility,
   fetch, file, flight, flit, flock together, flood, flow, flow back,
   flow in, flow of air, flow out, flow together, flowing, fluency,
   flush, flux, flyover, foison, following wind, forgather,
   forward motion, fountain, freshet, full measure, fullness, funeral,
   fuse, gamma ray, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around,
   generosity, generousness, get over, geyser, gill, glacial movement,
   gleam, glide, go, go along, go around, go round, go sideways,
   great abundance, great plenty, gush, gyrate, head wind,
   heave in sight, herd together, hie, hive, horde, huddle, indraft,
   inflow, infrared ray, inhalation, inrush, inspiration,
   invisible radiation, issue, issue forth, jet, jetstream,
   katabatic wind, kill, landslide, lavishness, league, leam,
   liberality, liberalness, line, link, look forth, loom, lots,
   luxuriance, main current, mainstream, make, march, march past,
   mass, materialize, maximum, meet, merge, mill, mill run, millrace,
   mizzle, monsoon, more than enough, motion, motorcade, mount,
   mounting, move, move along, move on, move over, movement,
   movement of air, much, mule train, muster, myriad, myriads,
   numerousness, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, onward course,
   opulence, opulency, outcrop, outflow, outpouring, overflow,
   pack train, parade, pass, passage, patch, patter, peep out, pelt,
   pencil, photon, pitter-patter, plenitude, plenteousness,
   plentifulness, plenty, plunge, plunging, pomp, pour,
   pour with rain, precipitate, prevalence, proceed, procession,
   prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, progress,
   proliferate, promenade, quantities, queue, race, radial motion,
   radiation, radiorays, rain, rain tadpoles, rally, rally around,
   random motion, ray, ray of light, reflowing, refluence, reflux,
   regress, regression, regurgitate, rendezvous, repleteness,
   repletion, retrogress, retrogression, review, ribbon,
   ribbon of light, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rill, riot,
   riotousness, rise, rising, river, rivulet, roll, roll on, rotate,
   row, run, run over, runnel, rush, sashay, scads, see the light,
   seethe, series, set, shift, shoot, show, show up, shower,
   shower down, sideward motion, sink, sinking, skimmington, slide,
   slip, soar, soaring, solar rays, spate, spatter, spin, spit, spout,
   sprinkle, spurt, squirt, sternway, stir, streak, stream forth,
   stream of air, stream of light, streamer, streamlet,
   strike the eye, string, subside, subsiding, substantiality,
   substantialness, succession, superabundance, surge, surge back,
   swarm, swarm with, swing, tail wind, tattoo, teem, teem with,
   teemingness, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, throng,
   tide, time spirit, tone, torrent, train, traject, trajet, travel,
   trend, tributary, turn up, ultraviolet ray, undercurrent, undertow,
   unite, updraft, upward motion, vapor trail, violet ray, vortex,
   wake, walk, wane, wash, water flow, watercourse, waterway, wayfare,
   wealth, weep, wend, whirl, wind



The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

stream

   1.  An abstraction referring to any flow of
   data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or
   receiver, consumer).  A stream usually flows through a channel
   of some kind, as opposed to packets which may be addressed
   and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients.
   Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a
   channel or a "connection" between the sender and receiver.

   2.  In the C language's buffered input/ouput
   library functions, a stream is associated with a file or
   device which has been opened using fopen.  Characters may be
   read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual
   source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently
   by the library routines.

   3.  Confusingly, Sun have called their
   modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS".

   4.  In IBM's AIX operating system, a
   stream is a full-duplex processing and data transfer path
   between a driver in kernel space and a process in user
   space.

   [IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts,
   SC23-2206-03].

   5.  streaming.

   6.  lazy list.

   (1996-11-06)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

STREAM

   ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital
   Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and
   Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987].

   (1995-01-30)


Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

STREAM. A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in
the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream. 2 Bouv.
Inst. n. 1612. See River; Water Course.