Definition of "stream"

stream

/stɹiːm/

noun
plural streams
1. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
  Quotations
  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: […] .
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59
2. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
3. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
  Quotations
  With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess‎
  A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.
  2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian‎
4. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
5. (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
6. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
7. Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
  1. An instance of streaming digital data.
    Quotations
    If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.
    2023 May 3, Courtney Young, “13 Shows to Binge When ‘Succession’ Ends”, in Cosmopolitan‎
  2. A live stream.
8. (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
verb
third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed
1. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
  Quotations
  beneath those banks where rivers now stream
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.
  1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934
2. (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
3. (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
4. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

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