stream — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

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   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:[…].

   European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

2. All moving waters.

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

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

4. Current, the force of moving water.

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   to swim against the stream

5. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

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   Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.

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   With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

   A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.

6. A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

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   • figurato

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   Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.

7. A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

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   In the context of computer science, lexical analysis can be defined as the conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens.

8. 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.

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   If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.

9. Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback. A live stream.

10. A division of a school year by perceived ability.

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    • uso britannico

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    All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.

11. A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.

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    Not to switch streams, but we really need to focus on talking about the economy right now...

Verbo

1. To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

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   • intransitivo

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   beneath those banks where rivers now stream

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   When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.

2. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

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   • intransitivo

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   A flag streams in the wind.

3. To discharge in a stream.

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   • transitivo

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   The soldier's wound was streaming blood.

4. To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

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   • Internet

5. To livestream.

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   • Internet

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   I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I wondered if that's what's affecting me and making me want to do this. And it's not.

Sostantivo

1. a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

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   watercourse

   Termini più generali

   body of waterwater

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

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   flowcurrent

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   courseline

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   two streams of development run through American history

   stream of consciousness

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   the flow of thought

   the current of history

3. the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

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   flow

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   motionmovementmove

4. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

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   flow

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   motion

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   a stream of people emptied from the terminal

   the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors

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

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   current

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   flowflowing

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   the raft floated downstream on the current

   he felt a stream of air

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   the hose ejected a stream of water

Verbo

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

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   floatdriftbe adriftblow

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   their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind

2. exude profusely

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   exudeexudatetransudeooze outooze

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   She was streaming with sweat

   His nose streamed blood

3. move in large numbers

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   pourswarmteempullulate

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   crowdcrowd together

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   people were pouring out of the theater

   beggars pullulated in the plaza

4. rain heavily

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   pourpeltrain cats and dogsrain buckets

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   rainrain down

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   Put on your rain coat — it's pouring outside!

5. flow freely and abundantly

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   well out

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   runflowfeedcourse

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   Tears streamed down her face