stream
Other forms: streams; streaming; streamed
That little rolling brook in your back yard is a stream. If it starts rising and threatens to flood, your father might let out a stream of expletives. A stream is a steady flow of something.
As a verb, stream means to flow out. If water streams from a faucet, it is pouring out. After a concert people stream out of a stadium and into the parking lot. On the web, you'll hear about something connected with music and video called streaming. This means that instead of having to download it to play, it is sent through your computer to listen to or watch, sort of like the way radio and TV work.
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a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
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synonyms:
watercourse
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branch
a stream or river connected to a larger one
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brook, creek
a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
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headstream
a stream that forms the source of a river
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river
a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
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rill, rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet
a small stream
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tidal river, tidal stream, tidewater river, tidewater stream
a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream
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billabong
a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high
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brooklet
a small brook
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distributary
a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it
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affluent, confluent, feeder, tributary
a branch that flows into the main stream
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body of water, water
the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
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something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
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dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas“two streams of development run through American history”“stream of consciousness”
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course, line, trajectory
a connected series of events or actions or developments
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course, line, trajectory
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a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)“he felt a stream of air”“the hose ejected a stream of water”
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synonyms:
current
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tidal current, tidal flow
the water current caused by the tides
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rip current, riptide
a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore
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undercurrent, undertide
a current below the surface of a fluid
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torrent, violent stream
a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)
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eddy, twist
a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
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maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool
a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
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ocean current
the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
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aegir, bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore
a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
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sea purse, sea puss, sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss, undertow
the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
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Charybdis
(Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
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El Nino
(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
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equatorial current
any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator
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Gulf stream
a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean
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Japan current, Kuroshio, Kuroshio current
a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean
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Humboldt current, Peruvian current
a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west
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the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
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flow freely and abundantly“Tears streamed down her face”
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synonyms:
well out
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spin
stream in jets, of liquids
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centrifugate, centrifuge
rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids
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spin
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to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
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exude profusely
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move in large numbers
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pour out, spill out, spill over
be disgorged
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crowd, crowd together
to gather together in large numbers
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pour out, spill out, spill over
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rain heavily
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pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs
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sheet
come down as if in sheets
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sluice, sluice down
pour as if from a sluice
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sheet
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