stream (striːm
)
Definitions
noun
- a small river; brook
- any steady flow of water or other fluid
- something that resembles a stream in moving continuously in a line or particular direction
- a rapid or unbroken flow of speech, etc ⇒
a stream of abuse
- a flow of money into a business ⇒
a revenue stream
- British any of several parallel classes of schoolchildren, or divisions of children within a class, grouped together because of similar ability
- See go with the stream
- See off stream
- See on stream
verb
- to emit or be emitted in a continuous flow ⇒
his nose streamed blood
- (intr) to move in unbroken succession, as a crowd of people, vehicles, etc
- (intr) to float freely or with a waving motion ⇒
bunting streamed in the wind
- (tr) to unfurl (a flag, etc)
- (intr) to move causing a trail of light, condensed gas, etc, as a jet aircraft
- when intr, often foll by for mining to wash (earth, gravel, etc) in running water in prospecting (for gold, etc), to expose the particles of ore or metal
- British education to group or divide (children) in streams
Alternative Forms
ˈstreamlet noun ˈstreamˌlike adjectiveWord Origin
Old English; related to Old Frisian strām, Old Norse straumr, Old High German stroum, Greek rheumaTranslations
- British English:
stream
A stream is a small narrow river.There was a small stream at the end of the garden.striːm NOUN There was a small stream at the end of the garden.
- Spanish:
corriente
nf
- French:
rivière
nf
- German:
Bach
nm Bäche
- Chinese: 水流 n
- Arabic: مَجْرىً n
- Portuguese: riacho nm
- Russian: ручей nm
- Croatian: rječica nf
- Czech: říčka nf
- Danish: vandløb nutr
- Dutch: stroom nm
- Finnish: virta n
- Greek: ρεύμα nnt
- Italian: ruscello nm
- Japanese: 小川 n
- Korean: 개울 n
- Norwegian: bekk nm
- Polish: strumień nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: riacho nm
- European Spanish:
corriente
nf
- Swedish: bäck nutr
- Thai: ลำธาร n
- Turkish: dere n
- Vietnamese: dòng suối n
Usage examples
He closed his eyes and let out his breath in a long steady stream.
, THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002)For Race 1 on Saturday PRO Mike Oldroyd set a Club biased line start for a long beat against the flood tidal stream.
Yachting Boating World (2005)Most refuse even to acknowledge its existence, and their official media spew a stream of hate at the "Zionist entity.
Globe and Mail (2003)Ion engines emit a stream of charged gas molecules, or ions, which are electrically accelerated to push the spacecraft forward.
Glasgow Herald (2001)He gazed at the ship's wake which rippled the place where a shrouded body sank under a stream of bubbles towards an unending darkness.
, SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR (2001)