Stream



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• n. 小溪; 水流; v. 倾注, 涌流

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English streme, from Old English strēam; akin to Old High German stroum stream, Greek rhein to flow
• Date: before 12th century
• 1. a body of running water (as a river or brook) flowing on the earth; also any body of flowing fluid (as water or gas)
• 2.
  • a. a steady succession (as of words or events) <kept up an endless stream of chatter>
  • b. a constantly renewed or steady supply <a stream of revenve>
  • c. a continuous moving procession <a stream of traffic>
• 3. an unbroken flow (as of gas or particles of matter)
• 4. a ray of light
• 5.
  • a. a prevailing attitude or group <has always run against the stream of current fashion>
  • b. a dominant influence or line of development <the influence of two streams of inheritance: genetic and cultural — P. B. Baltes>
• 6. British track 3c

II. verb

• Date: 13th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to flow in or as if in a stream
    • b. to leave a bright trail <a meteor streamed through the sky>
  • 2.
    • a. to exude a bodily fluid profusely <her eyes were streaming>
    • b. to become wet with a discharge of bodily fluid <streaming with perspiration>
  • 3. to trail out at full length <her hair streaming back as she ran>
  • 4. to pour in large numbers <complaints came streaming in>
• transitive verb
  • 1. to emit freely or in a stream <his eyes streamed tears>
  • 2. to display (as a flag) by waving

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