Streamname

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  A surname.

streamnoun/ˈstɹiːm/

• 1

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

  • 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.
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  sciencesAll moving waters.

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

  • He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
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  Current, the force of moving water.

  • to swim against the stream
• 5

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

  • Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
  • 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.
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  A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

  • Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsA source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

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

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

streamverb/ˈstɹiːm/

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

  • beneath those banks where rivers now stream
  • 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.
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  To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

  • A flag streams in the wind.
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  To discharge in a stream.

  • The soldier's wound was streaming blood.
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  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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  To livestream.

  • 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.