EGAVE

stream

About 27.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
  2. noun All moving waters.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun Current, the force of moving water.
    to swim against the stream
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
    Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback. An instance of streaming digital data. A live stream.

Similar words

watercourse rain cats and dogs rain buckets current flow pour pelt swarm well out channel

Often followed by

of and is in to that which from or

Word family

streamed streaming streams

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