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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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... as I came once again in view of the Thames, with the moon reflected in the water, and the dark arches of the bridge looking black and solemn contrasted against the silvery stream, I saw before me, a long way before me, a man whose figure stood out in relief against the white road—a man walking wearily and with evident ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both; and pushing on, though with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach—that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean—no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance ...
— Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 • Daniel Defoe
... being still in the rear. As the whole morning was evidently to be occupied in disposing the troops for the attack, I rode to the extreme right with Colonel Manning and Major Walton, where we ate quantities of cherries, and got a feed of corn for our horses. We also bathed in a small stream, but not without some trepidation on my part, for we were almost beyond the lines, and were ...
— Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 • Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
... angle, that the only way to get round is to charge the bank, bump off with a great churning of paddles and creaking of lashings and clanging of the telegraph from the bridge, and work the steamer's nose into the centre of the stream again. The banks, at these spots, are perfectly smooth and polished owing to the constant impacts. By themselves the river steamers could get round more skilfully, but with their clumsy barges on each ...
— In Mesopotamia • Martin Swayne
... wool-capped Company of Marat is not sleeping. Why unmoors that flatbottomed craft, that gabarre; about eleven at night; with Ninety Priests under hatches? They are going to Belle Isle? In the middle of the Loire stream, on signal given, the gabarre is scuttled; she sinks with all her cargo. 'Sentence of Deportation,' writes Carrier, 'was executed vertically.' The Ninety Priests, with their gabarre-coffin, lie deep! It is the first of the Noyades, what we may call Drownages, of Carrier; which ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle


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