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31stream — [[t]strim[/t]] n. 1) a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook 2) any flow or current of liquid, fluid, or gas 3) a trail of light; beam: a stream of moonlight[/ex] 4) a continuous succession: a stream of… …
32stream — A river, brook, or rivulet, anything in fact that is liquid and flows in a line or course. French v Carhart, I NY 96, 107. A steady current in a river or in the sea, especially the middle or most rapid part of a current or tide; as the gulf… …
33stream — 1. noun /strim/ a) A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass. b) A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air) …
34Stream — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Fluid in motion. < N PARAG:Stream >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 stream stream &c.(of water) 348 =>(of air) ???>349 PARAG:Stream >V GRP: V 1 Sgm: V 1 flow flow &c. 348 Sgm: V 1 blow …
35stream*/ — [striːm] noun [C] I 1) a small narrow river 2) a continuous flow of liquid or gas A stream of blood was running down his face.[/ex] 3) a continuous flow of people or things a stream of visitors/traffic[/ex] 4) a group of school students of the… …
36stream — A watercourse having a source and terminus, banks, and channel, through which waters flow at least periodically, and it usually empties into other streams, lakes, or the ocean, but it does not lose its character as a watercourse even though it… …
37stream — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, X ray, Zeitgeist, abound, abundance, actinic ray, actinism, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appear, arise, ascend,… …
38stream — [OE] A stream is etymologically something that ‘flows’. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *straumaz (source also of German strom, Dutch stroom, Swedish ström, and Danish strøm). This in turn was derived from the Indo European base *sreu… …
39stream — noun 1》 a small, narrow river. 2》 a continuous flow of liquid, air, gas, people, or things. 3》 Brit. a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught. verb 1》 (of liquid) run in a continuous flow. ↘(of a mass of people… …
40stream — 1. noun 1) a mountain stream Syn: creek, river, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet; tributary; bourn; brook 2) a stream of boiling water Syn: jet, flow …
