Stream definition
A stream of commuters; a stream of insults.
An example of a stream is water pouring from a rain gutter during a storm.
The banner streamed in the breeze.
A stream of cars.
A stream of cold air.
A stream of light.
He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.
A flag streams in the wind.
Traffic was streaming by. Fan mail streamed in.
The stream of events.
Eyes streaming with tears.
Fire streamed up the wall.
My eyes were streaming with tears.
- In or into operation or production:A new power plant soon to go on stream.
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of stream
- Middle English streme from Old English strēam sreu- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strÄ“am (“a stream, current, flowing water; flood"), from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream"), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river"), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow"). Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river"), North Frisian strum (“stream"), West Frisian stream (“stream"), Low German Stroom (“stream"), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream"), German Strom (“current, stream"), Danish strøm (“current, stream, flow"), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow"), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood"), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheuma, “stream, flow"), Lithuanian srovÄ— (“current, stream").
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