Stream
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stream¹
- /ˈstɹiːm/
- [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪi̯m] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪi̯m]
- /ˈstɾim/ Scotland
- [ˈstɾim] Scotland
- /ˈstɹim/ Scotland
- [ˈstɹim] Scotland
- /ˈstɾiːm/ Wales
- [ˈstɾiːm] Wales
Rhymes with -iːm
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-?
Proto-Indo-European *srew-der.
Proto-Indo-European *srow-mo-s
Proto-Germanic *straumaz
Proto-West Germanic *straum
Old English strēam
Middle English strem
English stream
From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian Stroom, struum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Faroese streymur (“stream”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).
noun streams
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
- All moving waters.
- 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.
- Current, the force of moving water. to swim against the stream
- 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.
- A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding. Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
- A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially. In the context of computer science, lexical analysis can be defined as the conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens.
- An instance of streaming digital data. If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.
- A live stream.
- 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.
- A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion. Not to switch streams, but we really need to focus on talking about the economy right now...
verb streams · streaming · streamed
- To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid. beneath those banks where rivers now stream
- To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind. A flag streams in the wind.
- To discharge in a stream. The soldier's wound was streaming blood.
- To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
- To livestream. I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I w
Stream²
proper noun Streams
- A surname.
