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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stream \Stream\, v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as his eyes streamed tears. It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart. --Spenser. 2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon. 3. To unfurl. --Shak. {To stream the buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries str[=a]m, OS str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw str["o]m, Icel. straumr Ir sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to flow, Skr. sru. [root]174. Cf {Catarrh}, {Diarrhea}, {Rheum}, {Rhythm}.] 1. 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. 2. A beam or ray of light. ``Sun streams.'' --Chaucer. 3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts as a stream of words a stream of sand. ``The stream of beneficence.'' --Atterbury. ``The stream of emigration.'' --Macaulay. 4. A continued current or course; as a stream of weather. ``The very stream of his life.'' --Shak. 5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as the stream of opinions or manners. {Gulf stream}. See under {Gulf}. {Stream anchor}, {Stream cable}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor}, and {Cable}. {Stream ice}, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in some definite direction. {Stream tin}, particles or masses of tin ore found in alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is the principal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel. {Stream works} (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked --Ure. {To float with the stream}, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Streamed}; p. pr & vb n. {Streaming}.] 1. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as tears streamed from her eyes. Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton. 2. To pour out or emit, a stream or streams. A thousand suns will stream on thee. --Tennyson. 3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. 4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as a flag streams in the wind. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stream n 1: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth [syn: {watercourse}] 2: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [syn: {flow}, {current}] 3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression [syn: {flow}] 4: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors" [syn: {flow}] 5: a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air" [syn: {current}] v 1: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind: "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind." 2: exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood" 3: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater" [syn: {pour}, {swarm}] 4: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat--it's pouring outside!" [syn: {pour}, {pelt}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain buckets}] 5: flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face" [syn: {well out}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: stream 1.An {abstraction} referring to any flow of data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or receiver, consumer). A stream usually flows through a channel of some kind as opposed to {packet}s which may be addressed and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients. Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a channel or a "{connection}" between the sender and receiver. 2. In the {C} language's buffered input/ouput library functions, a stream is associated with a file or device which has been opened using {fopen}. Characters may be read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently by the library routines. 3. Confusingly, {Sun} have called their modular {device driver} mechanism "{STREAMS}". 4. In {IBM}'s {AIX} {operating system}, a stream is a {full-duplex} processing and data transfer path between a driver in {kernel space} and a process in {user space}. [IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts, SC23-2206-03]. 5. {streaming}. 6. {lazy list}. (1996-11-06) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: STREAM ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987]. (1995-01-30)
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