stream

See also: Stream

English

A typical stream (noun sense 1)
Gustave Courbet's Le ruisseau de la Brême (The Brême Stream, 1866)

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *srew-der.
Proto-Indo-European *srow-mo-s
Proto-Germanic *straumaz
Proto-West Germanic *straum
Old English strēam
Middle English strem
English 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 Stroom, struum (“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”), Faroese streymur (“stream”), 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”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈstɹiːm/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪi̯m] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪi̯m]
      • Audio (US):(file)
    • (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈstɾim/, [ˈstɾim]; /ˈstɹim/, [ˈstɹim]
    • (Wales) IPA(key): /ˈstɾiːm/, [ˈstɾiːm]
    • Rhymes: -iːm
    • Hyphenation: stream

    Noun

    stream (plural streams)

    2. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
    3. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
    4. 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.
    5. Current, the force of moving water.
      to swim against the stream
    6. 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.
    7. (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
      Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
    8. (computing) A 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.
    9. Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
      1. An instance of streaming digital data.
        • 2023 May 3, Courtney Young, “13 Shows to Binge When ‘Succession’ Ends”, in Cosmopolitan‎[3], archived from the original on 26 August 2026:
          If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream.
      2. A live stream.
    10. (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.
    11. A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
      Not to switch streams, but we really need to focus on talking about the economy right now...

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → Finnish: striimi (live stream)
    • → Russian: стрим (strim)

    Translations

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    Verb

    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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
        beneath those banks where rivers now stream
      • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
        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.
    5. (Internet) To livestream.
      • 2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:40 from the start, in Coming Out‎[4], archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
        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.

    Derived terms

    Translations

    Further reading

    Anagrams

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English stream.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /striːm/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: stream

    Noun

    stream m (plural streams, no diminutive)

    1. (computing, Internet) a stream

    French

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    stream m (plural streams)

    1. (Internet) stream

    Old English

    Etymology

      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”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /stræ͜ɑːm/

      Noun

      strēam m

      1. stream
        • late 9th century CE [c. 731 CE], Bede, edited and translated by Thomas Miller, M.A., Ph.D., The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Early English Text Society original series 95), London: N. Trübner and Co., published 1890, Part I, page 56:
          Đa was on þā tīd Æðelbyrht cyning hāten on Centrīċe, ⁊ mihtiġ: hē hæfde rīċe ōð ġemæro Humbre strēames, sē tōsċēadeð sūðfolce Angelþēode ⁊ nordfolc.
          At that time the powerful Athelbert was king of the kingdom of Kent; his authority extended to the boundary of stream of the Humber, which divides the southern English from the northern English.
      2. current

      Declension

      Strong a-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative strēam strēamas
      accusative strēam strēamas
      genitive strēames strēama
      dative strēame strēamum

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      See also

      Polish

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
      Proto-Indo-European *srew-der.
      Proto-Indo-European *srow-mo-s
      Proto-Germanic *straumaz
      Proto-West Germanic *straum
      Old English strēam
      Middle English strem
      English streamubor.
      Polish stream

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

        Pronunciation

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

        Noun

        stream m inan

        1. (Internet) stream, live stream

        Declension

        Declension of stream
        singular plural
        nominative stream streamy
        genitive streamu streamów
        dative streamowi streamom
        accusative stream streamy
        instrumental streamem streamami
        locative streamie streamach
        vocative streamie streamy

        Derived terms

        noun

        References

        1. ^ Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012), Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎[1], Wydawnictwo PWN

        Further reading

        • “stream”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[5] (in Polish)
        • stream at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

        Spanish

        Etymology

        Etymology tree
        Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
        Proto-Indo-European *srew-der.
        Proto-Indo-European *srow-mo-s
        Proto-Germanic *straumaz
        Proto-West Germanic *straum
        Old English strēam
        Middle English strem
        English streamubor.
        Spanish stream

          Unadapted borrowing from English stream.

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /esˈtɾim/ [esˈt̪ɾĩm]
          • Rhymes: -im
          • Syllabification: s‧tream

          Noun

          stream m (plural streams)

          1. (Internet) stream, livestream

          Usage notes

          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.

          West Frisian

          Etymology 1

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

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /strɪə̯m/

          Noun

          stream c (plural streamen, diminutive streamke)

          1. river
            Synonym: rivier
          2. stream (of fluids), flow
          3. electric current
          Derived terms
          Further reading
          • “stream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

          Etymology 2

          Borrowed from English stream.

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /striːm/

          Noun

          stream c (plural streams, diminutive streamke)

          1. stream
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