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Stream

noun
1.
A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.  Synonym: watercourse.
2.
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.  Synonyms: current, flow.  "Stream of consciousness" , "The flow of thought" , "The current of history"
3.
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.  Synonym: flow.
4.
Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.  Synonym: flow.  "The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
5.
A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes).  Synonym: current.  "He felt a stream of air" , "The hose ejected a stream of water"
verb
(past & past part. streamed; pres. part. streaming)
1.
To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind.
2.
Exude profusely.  "His nose streamed blood"
3.
Move in large numbers.  Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem.  "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"
4.
Rain heavily.  Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs.
5.
Flow freely and abundantly.  Synonym: well out.



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"Stream" Quotes from Famous Books



... library Pen made herself comfortable on one of the window seats, pulling up the shade to let the moonlight stream in. ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... this part of the world, would surprise me," returned Meschines. "The Colorado might break its barriers; or it is conceivable that some huge stream, taking its rise in the heights hundreds of miles north and east of us, may be flowing through subterranean passages into the sea, emerging from the sea-bottom hundreds of miles to the westward. Now, ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne
... A stream of neighbors came in from everywhere. It was in those last moments as these humble friends passed before that unconscious form that we came to comprehend how many lives had been touched by the simple country girl from the Waldensian mountains. Some remembered her just from ...
— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte
... also had kindled a blaze behind the corner of the barraque, and now its glow was licking the yellow boards of the structure until they seemed almost to be liquescent, to be about to dissolve and flow over the ground in a golden stream. ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... and the light become one, but the one candle can again be separated from the other, and the two candles remain distinct; or the wick may be withdrawn from the wax." But there is another more intimate union, and this is "like rain falling from heaven into a river or stream, becoming one and the same liquid, so that the river and the rain-water cannot be divided; or it resembles a streamlet flowing into the sea, which cannot afterwards be disunited from it; or it may be likened to a room ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno


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