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stream
A	noun
	1	flow, stream
			the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚motion; movement; move ╚flow, stream ╚flood; overflow; outpouring ╚spill; spillage; release
	2	current, stream
			a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚movement; motion ╚change of location; travel ╚flow; flowing ╚current, stream ╚ocean current ╚whirlpool; vortex; maelstrom ╚eddy; twist ╚torrent; violent stream ╚undertide; undercurrent ╚riptide; rip current ╚tidal flow; tidal current
	3	stream, flow, current
			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"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚arrangement ╚ordering; order; ordination ╚series ╚course; line ╚stream, flow, current
	4	stream, watercourse
			a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
		Category Tree: entity ╚thing ╚body of water; water ╚stream, watercourse ╚tidal river; tidewater river; tidal stream; tidewater stream ╚rivulet; rill; run; runnel; streamlet ╚river ╚headstream ╚brook; creek ╚branch
	5	stream, flow
			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"
		Category Tree: state ╚motion ╚stream, flow
B	verb
	1	stream
			exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
		Category Tree: discharge; expel; eject; release ╚excrete; egest; eliminate; pass ╚exude; exudate; transude; ooze out; ooze ╚stream
	2	pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate
			move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚meet; gather; assemble; forgather; foregather ╚crowd; crowd together ╚pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate ╚spill over; spill out; pour out
	3	stream, well out
			flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
		Category Tree: move ╚run; flow; feed; course ╚stream, well out ╚spin
	4	stream
			to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
		Category Tree: travel; go; move; locomote ╚float; drift; be adrift; blow ╚stream
	5	pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
			rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
		Category Tree: precipitate; come down; fall ╚rain; rain down ╚pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets ╚sluice; sluice down ╚sheet

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