Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stream"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stream \Stream\, v. t.
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to
pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
It may so please that she at length will stream Some
dew of grace into my withered heart. --Spenser.
2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon.
3. To unfurl. --Shak.
{To stream the buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries.
str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum,
str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth,
Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to
flow, Skr. sru. [root]174. Cf. {Catarrh}, {Diarrhea},
{Rheum}, {Rhythm}.]
1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing
continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as
a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or
fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as,
many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam
came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead
from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
2. A beam or ray of light. ``Sun streams.'' --Chaucer.
3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of
parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. ``The
stream of beneficence.'' --Atterbury. ``The stream of
emigration.'' --Macaulay.
4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
``The very stream of his life.'' --Shak.
5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving
causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
{Gulf stream}. See under {Gulf}.
{Stream anchor}, {Stream cable}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor},
and {Cable}.
{Stream ice}, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in
some definite direction.
{Stream tin}, particles or masses of tin ore found in
alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is
the principal agent used in separating the ore from the
sand and gravel.
{Stream works} (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial
deposit of tin ore is worked. --Ure.
{To float with the stream}, figuratively, to drift with the
current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or
check it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Streamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Streaming}.]
1. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a
current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as,
tears streamed from her eyes.
Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.
2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
A thousand suns will stream on thee. --Tennyson.
3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in
the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stream
n 1: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the
earth [syn: {watercourse}]
2: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
events or ideas: "two streams of development run through
American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
thought"; "the current of history" [syn: {flow}, {current}]
3: a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft
floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
air" [syn: {current}]
4: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
[syn: {flow}]
5: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving
continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the
terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow
of visitors" [syn: {flow}]
v 1: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind: "their
manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind."
2: exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose
streamed blood"
3: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
theater" [syn: {pour}, {swarm}]
4: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
outside!" [syn: {pour}, {pelt}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain
buckets}]
5: flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
[syn: {well out}]
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