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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stream/striːm/
noun
  • 1 a small, narrow river.
  • 2 a continuous flow of liquid, air, gas, people, or things.

    Computing a continuous flow of data, especially video and audio material, relayed over the Internet.

  • 3 Brit. a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.
verb
  • 1 (of liquid) run in a continuous flow.

    ■ (of a mass of people or things) move in a continuous flow.

    ■ (often as noun streaming) Computing relay (data, especially video and audio material) over the Internet as a steady, continuous stream.

  • 2 run with tears, sweat, or other liquid.
  • 3 float at full extent in the wind.
  • 4 Brit. put (schoolchildren) in streams.
– phrases
against (or with) the stream against (or with) the prevailing view or tendency.
on stream in or into operation or existence.
– derivatives
streamlet noun.
– origin OE strēam (n.), of Gmc origin.
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