stream

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.

Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).

• enPR: strēm, IPA^(key): /stɹiːm/

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• Rhymes: -iːm

stream (plural streams)

1. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     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: […] .

   • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:

     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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess‎:

     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.

   • 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian‎:

     A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.

4. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
5. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
6. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

   Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.

7. (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.

   All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.

8. A live stream.

• (small river): beck, brook, burn

• (small river): rill
• (moving water): river

stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)

1. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     beneath those banks where rivers now stream

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:

     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.

2. (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

   A flag streams in the wind.

3. (transitive) To discharge in a stream.

   The soldier's wound was streaming blood.

4. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

• “stream”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “stream”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “stream”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “stream” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 'maters, Amster, METARs, Master, armest, armets, master, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, tamers, tremas, trémas

Borrowed from English stream.

• IPA^(key): /striːm/

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• Hyphenation: stream

stream m (plural streams)

1. (computing, Internet) A stream.

• livestream
• streamen

stream m (plural streams)

1. (Internet) stream

From Proto-West Germanic *straum.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian strām, Old Saxon strōm, Old High German stroum, Old Norse straumr. Extra-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma), Polish strumień, Albanian rrymë (“flow, current”).

• IPA^(key): /stræ͜ɑːm/

strēam m

1. stream
2. current

• Middle English: strem, streem
  • English: stream
  • Scots: streme, streim

• ēa (“river”)
• gārseċġ (“ocean”)
• mere (“lake”)
• sǣ (“sea”)

Unadapted borrowing from English stream. First attested in 1993.[1]

• IPA^(key): /strim/
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: stream

stream m inan

1. (Internet) stream, live stream

• stream in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stream in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• stream at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Unadapted borrowing from English.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɾim/ [esˈt̪ɾĩm]
  • Rhymes: -im
• IPA^(key): /esˈtɾin/ [esˈt̪ɾĩn]
  • Rhymes: -in

stream m (plural streams)

1. (computing) stream

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

From Old Frisian strām, from Proto-West Germanic *straum.

• IPA^(key): /strɪə̯m/

stream c (plural streamen, diminutive streamke)

1. river
2. stream (of fluids), flow
3. electric current

• streame

• “stream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011