stream

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English [edit]

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Gustave Courbet's Le ruisseau de la Brême (The Brême Stream, 1866)

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam (“a stream, current, flowing water; flood”), from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheuma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”).

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Noun [edit]

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  1. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
    • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59: 
      European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  2. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
    He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
  3. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
    Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
  4. (sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.
  5. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
  6. (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
    All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.

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small river
thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas
any steady flow or succession of material
(sciences) moving water
(computing) source or repository of data
(education) division of a school year
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Verb [edit]

stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)

  1. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.
  2. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

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Old English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Proto-Germanic *straumaz, whence also Old High German stroum, Old Norse straumr (Norwegian straum, Icelandic straumur). Extra-Germanic cognates include Albanian rrymë (“flow, current”).

Noun [edit]

strēam m

  1. stream

West Frisian [edit]

Noun [edit]

stream c

  1. river
  2. stream
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