1.
[syn: cyclosis, streaming]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts;
- Example: "his streaming face"
- Example: "her streaming eyes"
2. (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data;
- Example: "streaming audio"
- Example: "streaming video recording"
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Streaming \Stream"ing\, a.
Sending forth streams.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Streaming \Stream"ing\, n.
1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of
that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
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2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for
stream tin.
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3. (Biol.) the rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; --
called also protoplasmic streaming.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
streaming
adj 1: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming
face"; "her streaming eyes"
2: (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous
tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of
unedited data; "streaming audio"; "streaming video recording"
n 1: the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell [syn:
cyclosis, streaming]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "streaming":
affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward,
bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing,
bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat-and-doggish, confluent,
coursing, dangling, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent,
down-trending, downward, drifting, drippy, driving, drizzling,
drizzly, drooping, drumming, easy, flapping, flowing, fluent,
flushing, fluxional, fluxive, flying, gleaming, gleamy, glinting,
glowing, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging,
illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, lax, light as day,
loose, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mazy, meandering,
misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mounting, orient, passing, pelting,
plunging, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, profluent,
progressive, racing, radiant, rainy, reflowing, refluent,
regressive, relaxed, retrogressive, rickety, rising, rotary,
rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, rutilant, rutilous,
serpentine, shaky, shining, shiny, showery, sideward, sinking,
slack, sloppy, sluggish, soaring, starbright, starlike, starry,
suffused, sunny, sunshiny, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending,
upward, vortical
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
streaming
Playing sound or video in real time as
it is downloaded over the Internet as opposed to storing it
in a local file first. A plug-in to a web browser such as
Netscape Navigator decompresses and plays the data as it is
transferred to your computer over the web.
Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in
downloading an entire file and then playing it with a helper
application. Streaming requires a fast connection and a
computer powerful enough to execute the decompression
algorithm in real time.
(1996-11-06)