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Stream   /strim/   Listen
noun
Stream  n.  
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."
3.
Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The stream of beneficence." "The stream of emigration."
4.
A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. "The very stream of his life."
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. (Naut.) 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.
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.


verb
Stream  v. t.  
1.
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."
2.
To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. "The herald's mantle is streamed with gold."
3.
To unfurl.
To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.


Stream  v. i.  (past & past part. streamed; pres. part. 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. "Beneath those banks where rivers stream."
2.
To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. "A thousand suns will stream on thee."
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.





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"Stream" Quotes from Famous Books



... library Pen made herself comfortable on one of the window seats, pulling up the shade to let the moonlight stream in. ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... this part of the world, would surprise me," returned Meschines. "The Colorado might break its barriers; or it is conceivable that some huge stream, taking its rise in the heights hundreds of miles north and east of us, may be flowing through subterranean passages into the sea, emerging from the sea-bottom hundreds of miles to the westward. Now, ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne
... A stream of neighbors came in from everywhere. It was in those last moments as these humble friends passed before that unconscious form that we came to comprehend how many lives had been touched by the simple country girl from the Waldensian mountains. Some remembered her just from ...
— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte
... also had kindled a blaze behind the corner of the barraque, and now its glow was licking the yellow boards of the structure until they seemed almost to be liquescent, to be about to dissolve and flow over the ground in a golden stream. ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... and the light become one, but the one candle can again be separated from the other, and the two candles remain distinct; or the wick may be withdrawn from the wax." But there is another more intimate union, and this is "like rain falling from heaven into a river or stream, becoming one and the same liquid, so that the river and the rain-water cannot be divided; or it resembles a streamlet flowing into the sea, which cannot afterwards be disunited from it; or it may be likened to a room ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno


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