Stream
- n. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
- n. 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.
- n. A beam or ray of light.
- n. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
- n. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
- v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
- v. t. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.