Definition of Stream

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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.

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Stream Quotations

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
Richard Branson

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
George Edward Woodberry

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

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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