stream

IPA: strˈim

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
(sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
An instance of streaming digital data.
A live stream.
(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
A surname.

(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
(intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
(transitive) To discharge in a stream.
(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

Examples of "stream" in Sentences

That half-way law applies if the stream is a property boundary
And learn from the “main stream” Muslims and the apostates who know it from the inside.
Fumo talked to the judge for an hour Thursday in what he called a "stream of consciousness" essay.
Typical government school, go after those who are least likely to have their case reported on by the main stream press.
ChrisHo: Typical government school, go after those who are least likely to have their case reported on by the main stream press.
Then he said it was as clear as a mountain stream that the ECB could not make an exception for Greece alone, when it came to accepting Greek debt as collateral even if it was downgraded to junk by credit rating agencies.
We observe, e.g., that a cognition which has the form of a jar (i.e. the idea of a jar) gives rise to the cognition of the two halves of a jar, and is itself preceded and produced by the cognition of a jar, and this again by a similar cognition, and so on; this is what we call a stream or flow of ideas.