streamline
pronunciation
How to pronounce streamline in British English:
UK [ˈstriːmlaɪn]
How to pronounce streamline in American English:
US [ˈstriːmlaɪn]
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- Verb:
- contour economically or efficiently
Word Origin
- streamline (v.)
- 1913, "give a streamline form to," from streamline (n.). From 1936 in the extended sense of "simplify and organize." Related: Streamlined; streamlining.
- streamline (n.)
- 1868, "line drawn from point to point, so that its direction is everywhere that of the motion of the fluid" [Lamb, "Hydrodynamics," 1906], from stream (n.) + line (n.). The adjective is attested from 1898, "free from turbulence," 1907 in sense of "shaped so that the flow around it is smooth."
Example
- 1. Apple has often released products that simplify and streamline .
- 2. Streamline their systems generally very fierce !
- 3. If your product can cut that company 's costs or streamline its out-of-control processes , then play it up .
- 4. And he added insights about industrial organization achieved in his business school days to streamline the effort and control costs .
- 5. If propulsion is not improved and streamline is , then a swimmer will go faster .