stream
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)streams
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earthSynonyms: watercourseType of body of water, waterKinds river, brook, rivulet, headstream, tidal river, branchParts ford, meander, midstream
- 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”Synonyms: flowcurrentType of course, line
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progressionSynonyms: flowType of motion, movementKinds flood, spill
- 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”Synonyms: flowType of motion
- 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”Synonyms: currentType of flow, flowingKinds torrent, riptide, undertide, tidal flow, ocean current, eddy, whirlpool
Verb (5)streams, streamed, streaming
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind“their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind”More general float, drift
- exude profusely“She was streaming with sweat”“His nose streamed blood”More general exude, exudate
- move in large numbers“people were pouring out of the theater”“beggars pullulated in the plaza”Synonyms: pourswarmteempullulateMore general crowd, crowd togetherMore specific spill over, spill out
- rain heavily“Put on your rain coat — it's pouring outside!”Synonyms: pourpeltrain cats and dogsrain bucketsMore general rain, rain downMore specific sluice, sheet
- flow freely and abundantly“Tears streamed down her face”Synonyms: well outMore general run, flowMore specific spin
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun small river
- Spanish
- arroyo
- French
- ruisseau
- German
- Bach
- Italian
- ruscello
- Turkish
- dere
- Russian
- руче́й ručéj
- Arabic
- جَدْوَل jadwal
- Chinese
- 溪 xī
- Japanese
- 小川 ogawa
- Dutch
- stroom
27 more languages
- Polish
- potok
- Swedish
- bäck
- Greek
- ρυάκι ryáki
- Korean
- 시내 sinae
- Vietnamese
- suối
- Hungarian
- patak
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 溪 xī
- Albanian
- përrua
- Catalan
- rierol
- Czech
- potok
- Danish
- å
- Esperanto
- rivereto
- Estonian
- oja
- Finnish
- puro
- Georgian
- რუ ru
- Hebrew
- נַחַל náḥal
- Icelandic
- lækur
- Latvian
- strauts
- Lithuanian
- upelis
- Norwegian
- å
- Romanian
- pârâu
- Scottish Gaelic
- sruth
- Serbo-Croatian
- potok
- Slovak
- potok
- Slovenian
- potok
- Welsh
- nant
- Yiddish
- שטראָם shtrom
Noun any steady flow or succession of material
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. streám; akin to OFries. strām, OS. strōm, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, strūm, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. ῥύσις a flowing, ῥεῖν to flow, Skr. sru. √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.
2. A beam or ray of light. “Sun streams.” Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. “The stream of beneficence.” Francis Atterbury “The stream of emigration.” Thomas Babington Macaulay
4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. “The very stream of his life.” William Shakespeare
5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
Gulf stream. See under Gulf. — Stream anchor, Stream cable. Nautical 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. Andrew Ure — To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.
Synonyms: Current; flow; rush; tide; course. — 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.
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.
Beneath those banks where rivers stream.— John Milton
2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
A thousand suns will stream on thee.— Alfred Tennyson
3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart.— Edmund Spenser
2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
3. To unfurl. William Shakespeare
To stream the buoy. Nautical See under Buoy.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
["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)
1.<communications> 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.<programming> 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.<operating system> Confusingly, Sun have called their modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS".
4.<operating system> 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.<communications> streaming.
6.<programming> lazy list.
(1996-11-06)