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Stream

noun

1.

A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth. Synonym: watercourse.

2.

Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas. Synonyms: current, flow. "Stream of consciousness" , "The flow of thought" , "The current of history"

3.

The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression. Synonym: flow.

4.

Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. Synonym: flow. "The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

5.

A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes). Synonym: current. "He felt a stream of air" , "The hose ejected a stream of water"

verb

(past & past part. streamed; pres. part. streaming)

1.

To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind.

2.

Exude profusely. "His nose streamed blood"

3.

Move in large numbers. Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem. "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"

4.

Rain heavily. Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs.

5.

Flow freely and abundantly. Synonym: well out.

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"Stream" Quotes from Famous Books

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— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

... and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the ...

— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell

... shouted inaudible personal things. Most of the faces were flushed, but many were ghastly white. And disease was there, and many a hand that waved to him was gaunt and lean. Men and women of the new age! Strange and incredible meeting! As the broad stream passed before him to the right, tributary gangways from the remote uplands of the hall thrust downward in an incessant replacement of people; tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp. The unison of the song was enriched and complicated by the massive echoes of arches and passages. Men and women mingled in the ...

— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... the moment Betteredge mentioned it. The farm-house stood in a sheltered inland valley, on the banks of the prettiest stream in that part of Yorkshire: and the farmer had a spare bedroom and parlour, which he was accustomed to let to artists, anglers, and tourists in general. A more agreeable place of abode, during my stay in the neighbourhood, I could not have ...

— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins

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