Stream
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English
Noun
Stream (plural Streams)- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air)
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words
- (sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.
- (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
Verb
Stream (third-person singular simple present Streams, present participle Streaming, simple past and past participle Streamed)
- (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
- (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
Adjectives for Stream
swampy; bounding; echoing; whispering; turning; turbid; crystalline; rude; sharpy rippled; torrent; crystal; playful; straining; purling; shoreless; sluggish; eddying; immemorial; rushing; muddy; murmuring; trickling; rock-encumbered; translucent: fiery; feeding; dancing; summer; gliding; eternal; forbidden; steady; reedy; milky; sullen; solitary; gentle; sourceless; augmented; intervening; surcharged; trembling; fervid; plashing; cooling; glacial; salutary; lucid; sylvan; brown; quickening; livelier; fond; silly; wizard; tributary; voiceless; slender; flashing; lurid; cleansing; impetuous; yellow; constant; placid; fertilizing; simpering; bashful; unreluctant; fascinating; chiding; precipitous; intermittent; volcanic; ever-flowing; precious; fleeting; gushing; inert; navigable; pebbly; constant; enormous; comet-like; wayward; muddied; merry; visible; mighty; rapid; irrigating; whispering; living; delicate; substantial; boundless; celestial; bleeding; branching; feeble; blended; innumberable (plural); accepted; running; hairy; hurrying; hidden; formidable; indolent; reverent; sinister; pale, melancholy; doubled; storied; haunted; equable; formless; continuous; languid; cascading; copious; swollen; flowing; leaping; exuberant; bonedry; imperial; golden; attractive; rippling; mountain; icy; undulating; petty; epigrammatic; diverging; inland; shallow; joyous; electric; gracious; singing; motionless; childhood; ignoble; lyrical; venomous; traffic; subterranean; returning; limpid; salt; mighty; numerous; brackish; foaming; verbose; dwindling; desolate; flattering; adventurous; brimming.
Adverbs for Stream
tortuously; monotonously; unceasingly; perpetually; giddily; incessantly; boundingly; turbulently; turbidly; torrentially; eddyingty; translucently; copiously; exuberantly; undulatingly; subterraneanly; limpidly.
Synonyms for Stream
beck; brook; burn; creek; flow;
Thesaurus
streamer, river, jet stream, Gulf Stream, streaming media, abound, abundance, actinic ray, advance, affluence, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
