stream
pronunciation
How to pronounce stream in British English:
UK [striːm]
How to pronounce stream in American English:
US [striːm]
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- Noun:
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- a steady flow (usually from natural causes)
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
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- Verb:
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
- exude profusely
- move in large numbers
- rain heavily
- flow freely and abundantly
Word Origin
- stream
- stream: [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- ‘flow’, which has also given English catarrh, diarrhoea, and rheumatism. Non-Germanic relatives of stream include Polish strumyk ‘brook’ and Sanskrit srotas- ‘stream’.=> catarrh, diarrhoea, rheumatism
- stream (v.)
- early 13c., "to flow copiously," from stream (n.). Transitive sense "discharge in a stream" is from late 14c. Related: Streamed; streaming. Compare German strömen, Dutch stroomen, Danish strömme, all verbs from nouns.
- stream (n.)
- Old English stream "a course of water," from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (cognates: Old Saxon strom, Old Norse straumr, Danish strøm, Swedish ström, Norwegian straum, Old Frisian stram, Dutch stroom, Old High German stroum, German Strom "current, river"), from PIE root *sreu- "to flow" (see rheum). From early 12c. as "anything issuing from a source and flowing continuously." Meaning "current in the sea" (as in Gulf Stream) is recorded from late 14c., as is the sense of "steady current in a river." Stream of consciousness in lit crit first recorded 1930, originally in psychology (1855). Stream of thought is from 1890.
Example
- 1. Eventually , they 'll need to tie their open source ideals to a revenue stream .
- 2. One problem : the bar actually covered up part of the tweet stream .
- 3. The solar wind is a stream of electrically-charged particles .
- 4. She kept moving until she came to a stream .
- 5. Stream restoration projects create great sense of pride amongst residents .