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Definition of Stream

Stream 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. A beam or ray of light. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners. 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. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. To unfurl. Related Definitions: And, Any, Anything, Are, As, Beam, Blended, Brook, Came, Cause, Continued, Continuously, Course, Current, Drift, Earth, Either, Embroidery, Emit, Extend, Flag, Float, Flow, Flowing, Fluid, Forth, Fountain, Freely, From, Furnace, Gas, Her, His, In, Is, Issue, Issuing, Lava, Lead, Likened, Line, Liquid, Long, Light, Many, Mark, Molten, Motion, Moving, Of, On, Or, Other, Out, Pour, Radiate, Ray, Reservoir, River, Running, Sand, Send, Series, Specifically, Steam, Stream, Streamed, Stretch, Succession, Tendency, Tending, The, To, Unfurl, Vessel, Volcano, Water, Wavy, Weather, Whatever, Wind, With

Stream Quotations Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Henry David Thoreau Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? Pedro Calderon de la Barca The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. Bertrand Russell

Stream Translations stream in Dutch is loop, stroom, stroming stream in Finnish is joki stream in French is courant, ruisseau stream in Italian is corrente, ruscello stream in Latin is profundo frofui profusum, fluo stream in Spanish is arroyo, corriente

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