stream

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)

   the raft floated downstream on the current

2. 2
   noun

   dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

   two streams of development run through American history

3. 3
   noun

   something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

   a stream of people emptied from the terminal

4. 4
   verb

   exude profusely

   After a hard workout, they were streaming with sweat.

5. 5
   verb

   flow freely and abundantly

   Tears streamed down their face as they begged for forgiveness.

6. 6
   verb

   to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind

   their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind

7. 7
   noun

   A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

   Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].

8. 8
   noun

   A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

   He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.

Etymology

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum. Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian Stroom, struum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedis…