Meaning of "stream" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STREAM

Old English; related to Old Frisian strām, Old Norse straumr, Old High German stroum, Greek rheuma.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF STREAM

striːm

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STREAM

Stream is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb stream in English.

WHAT DOES STREAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stream

A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill, kill, lick, mill race, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run, or runnel. Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and corridors for fish and wildlife migration. The biological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparian zone. Given the status of the ongoing Holocene extinction, streams play an important corridor role in connecting fragmented habitats and thus in conserving biodiversity. The study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and is a core element of environmental geography.

Definition of stream in the English dictionary

The first definition of stream in the dictionary is a small river; brook. Other definition of stream is any steady flow of water or other fluid. Stream is also something that resembles a stream in moving continuously in a line or particular direction.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STREAM

PRESENT

Present

I stream

you stream

he/she/it streams

we stream

you stream

they stream

Present continuous

I am streaming

you are streaming

he/she/it is streaming

we are streaming

you are streaming

they are streaming

Present perfect

I have streamed

you have streamed

he/she/it has streamed

we have streamed

you have streamed

they have streamed

Present perfect continuous

I have been streaming

you have been streaming

he/she/it has been streaming

we have been streaming

you have been streaming

they have been streaming

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I streamed

you streamed

he/she/it streamed

we streamed

you streamed

they streamed

Past continuous

I was streaming

you were streaming

he/she/it was streaming

we were streaming

you were streaming

they were streaming

Past perfect

I had streamed

you had streamed

he/she/it had streamed

we had streamed

you had streamed

they had streamed

Past perfect continuous

I had been streaming

you had been streaming

he/she/it had been streaming

we had been streaming

you had been streaming

they had been streaming

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will stream

you will stream

he/she/it will stream

we will stream

you will stream

they will stream

Future continuous

I will be streaming

you will be streaming

he/she/it will be streaming

we will be streaming

you will be streaming

they will be streaming

Future perfect

I will have streamed

you will have streamed

he/she/it will have streamed

we will have streamed

you will have streamed

they will have streamed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been streaming

you will have been streaming

he/she/it will have been streaming

we will have been streaming

you will have been streaming

they will have been streaming

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would stream

you would stream

he/she/it would stream

we would stream

you would stream

they would stream

Conditional continuous

I would be streaming

you would be streaming

he/she/it would be streaming

we would be streaming

you would be streaming

they would be streaming

Conditional perfect

I would have stream

you would have stream

he/she/it would have stream

we would have stream

you would have stream

they would have stream

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been streaming

you would have been streaming

he/she/it would have been streaming

we would have been streaming

you would have been streaming

they would have been streaming

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you stream
we let´s stream
you stream

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to stream

Past participle

streamed

Present Participle

streaming

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «STREAM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stream» and belong to the same grammatical category.

avalanche · barrage · battery · bayou · beck · brook · burn · cascade · category · chain · class · course · creek · current · division · drift · emit · flap · float · flood · flow · flutter · fly · freshet · glide · grade · group · grouping · gush · issue · outpouring · pour · rill · river · rivulet · run · rush · series · set · shed · speed · spill · spout · succession · surge · swing · tear · tide · tideway · torrent · tributary · volley · waft

TRANSLATION OF STREAM

Find out the translation of stream to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of stream from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stream» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 水流
• Translator English - Spanish: corriente
• English: stream
• Translator English - Hindi: धारा
• Translator English - Arabic: مَجْرىً
• Translator English - Russian: ручей
• Translator English - Portuguese: riacho
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রবাহ
• Translator English - French: rivière
• Translator English - Malay: Aliran
• Translator English - German: Bach
• Translator English - Japanese: 小川
• Translator English - Korean: 개울
• Translator English - Javanese: Stream
• Translator English - Vietnamese: dòng suối
• Translator English - Tamil: ஸ்ட்ரீம்
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रवाह
• Translator English - Turkish: akım
• Translator English - Italian: ruscello
• Translator English - Polish: strumień
• Translator English - Ukrainian: струмок
• Translator English - Romanian: râu
• Translator English - Greek: ρεύμα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: stroom
• Translator English - Swedish: bäck
• Translator English - Norwegian: bekk

10 QUOTES WITH «STREAM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stream.

1

James Agee

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

2

Shana Alexander

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

3

Alfred Amoroso

DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of the video stream accordingly.

4

Irving Azoff

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

5

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

6

Craig Benson

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

7

Craig Benson

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

8

James Theodore Bent

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

9

William Blake

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

10

Georg Brandes

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREAM»

Discover the use of stream in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stream and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Islands in the Stream: A Novel

A LATER CLASSIC FROM AMERICA'S PREMIER FICTION WRITER First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself.

Ernest Hemingway, 2003

Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and ...

Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches this valuable tool to anyone, regardless of his or her background.This groundbreaking ...

Mike Rother, John Shook, 2003

The Total Outdoorsman Manual (Field & Stream)

The Total Outdoorsman Manual is the ultimate guide book for the outdoors enthusiast, packed with hundreds of practical tips and techniques from T. Edward Nickens and the experts at Field & Stream magazine, that is guaranteed to improve your ...

T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 2011

Data Stream Management

Table of Contents: Introduction / Data Stream Management Systems / Streaming Data Warehouses / Conclusions

Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Ozsu, M. Tamer Özsu, 2010

Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African ...

"A showcase for nineteenth-century African American women, and particularly elite women, as a group of writers who are currently underrepresented in rhetorical scholarship."--cover.

Jacqueline Jones Royster, 2000

Tropical Stream Ecology

This book describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology.

David Dudgeon, 2011

Against the Stream

Buddha was a revolutionary. His practice was subversive; his message, seditious. His enlightened point of view went against the norms of his day—in his words, "against the stream.

Noah Levine, 2009

Methods in Stream Ecology

This text is also supportive as a supplementary text for courses in watershed ecology/science, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, and landscape ecology. * Exercises in each chapter * Detailed instructions, illustrations, formulae, and data ...

F. Richard Hauer, Gary A. Lamberti, 2011

Mapping the Total Value Stream: A Comprehensive Guide for ...

This book reshapes and extends the lessons originally put forward in a number of pioneering works including the popular ,Value Stream Management for the Lean Office.

Mark A. Nash, Sheila R. Poling, 2011

Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious ...

This is a result of a single primitive experiential relationship which he calls "co-consciousness," a relationship which holds between those experiences that are had together both a time and over time.

Barry Dainton, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STREAM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stream is used in the context of the following news items.

Meerkat introduces live streaming straight from GoPro cameras

You'd be forgiven for not noticing, but the battle for live-streaming supremacy between Meerkat and Periscope is still ongoing. In its latest attempt to win followers ... «The Verge, Jul 15»

One Chart That Explains Why Comcast Is Launching Stream

Through Stream, Comcast customers will have access to about a dozen networks, including HBO. The service is set to launch first in Boston by the end of the ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

Comcast To Launch Stream, Internet TV Service For Everything …

Comcast announced today it is launching Stream, its own internet TV service. The $15-per-month service will be available to Comcast's Xfinity broadband ... «Deadline, Jul 15»

Taylor Swift to Stream '1989' Album on Apple Music

Taylor Swift said on Thursday that she would stream her latest album, “1989,” on Apple's new service, apparently ending her brief dispute with the tech giant. «New York Times, Jun 15»

Comedy Central to stream more than 2000 episodes of The Daily …

Comedy Central has announced “Your Month of Zen,” a more than monthlong stream of over 2,000 episodes of The Daily Show. Episodes will begin streaming ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jun 15»

Gazprom's Dangerous New Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Germany

Analysts are wondering: Why would Germany continue to work with Russia's Gazprom when it is supposedly targeting Russia for its invasion and occupation of ... «theTrumpet.com, Jun 15»

Bulgaria Fully Compliant with EU Rules after South Stream …

Bulgaria ensured compliance with all EU rules after the suspension of the South Stream gas pipeline project, according to Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov. «Novinite.com, Jun 15»

Gunther Schuller, proponent of Third Stream jazz-classical …

Schuller, the leading proponent of the Third Stream movement fusing jazz and classical music, has died at age 89. His son, bassist Ed Schuller, said his father ... «680 News, Jun 15»

Turkish Stream has 'gotten stuck': Report

The planned gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey, dubbed the “Turkish Stream,” is facing obstacles due ongoing political uncertainties in the latter, Russia's ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jun 15»

Yahoo will broadcast first free global live stream of NFL game

The first NFL game to be globally streamed live, for free, over the Internet will be on Yahoo.com. The Buffalo Bills-Jacksonville Jaguars game on Oct. 25 in ... «Yahoo Sports, Jun 15»