stream

English

Wikipedia

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

Etymology

From Old English strēam, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /striːm/, SAMPA: /strim/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

Wikipedia stream (plural streams)

1. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks
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.

   • 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, the Guardian:

     A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.

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.

Synonyms

• beck
• brook
• burn
• creek
• flow
• rill

Translations

small river

Albanian: përrua (sq) m. Arabic: جدول (jádwal) m. Armenian: գետակ (hy) (getak) Bosnian: potok (bs) m. Chinese: 水流 (shuǐliú) Croatian: potok (hr) m. Czech: potok (cs) m. Dutch: stroom (nl) m. Esperanto: rivereto (eo) Finnish: puro (fi), oja (fi) French: courant (fr) m., ruisseau (fr) m. German: Bach (de) m. Greek: ρυάκι (el) (ryáki) n. Hebrew: יובל (yuval) m., פלג (peleg) m., נחל (nakhal) m. Hungarian: patak (hu) Igbo: iyi Italian: corrente (it) m. Japanese: 流れ (ながれ, nagare) Korean: 시내 (sinae)

Lithuanian: upelis (lt) m., m, f Macedonian: поток (mk) (pótok) m. Manx: stroo (gv) m. Navajo: tó nilį́į́h Portuguese: riacho (pt) m. Romanian: pârâu (ro) m. and f., torent (ro) n., șuvoi (ro) n., curent (ro) m. Russian: поток (ru) (potók) m., ручей (ru) (ručéj) m. Scottish Gaelic: sruth (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: поток m. Roman: potok m. Spanish: corriente (es) f., flujo (es) m. Swedish: ström (sv) c., flod (sv) c., bäck (sv) c. Taos: p’ȍ’óna Telugu: వాగు (vaagu), ఉపనది (te) (upanadi) Turkish: çay (tr) Welsh: nant (cy)

thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas

Telugu: ధార (dhaara)

Any steady flow or succession of material

Armenian: հոսանք (hy) (hosank’) Finnish: virta (fi) French: flot (fr) m., courant (fr) m. German: Strom (de) m. Greek: ροή (el) f.

Hebrew: זרם (zerem) m. Lithuanian: srautas (lt) m. Romanian: flux (ro) n., șuvoi (ro) n. Telugu: ధార (dhaara)

to be checked

• Hebrew: גיח m.

Related terms

• streamer
• river
• jet stream
• Gulf Stream

Verb

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.

Translations

Translations

Spanish: 1.fluir, 2. correr

Turkish: 1.dere, 2. akıntı, 3. akış, 4. akarsu

See also

• streaming media
• (computing):standard streams

Anagrams

• armest, Master, master, maters, matres, METARs, tamers, tremas

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Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *straumaz, whence also Old High German stroum, Old Norse straumr (Norwegian straum, Icelandic straumur)

Noun

strēam m.

1. stream

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West Frisian

Noun

stream c.

1. river
2. stream