Results for stream

Definitions of stream:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To issue or flow in a stream; run in a current; float, or stretch out with a waving movement; as, banners streamed in the air.

part of speech: noun

A current of water or other fluid; anything flowing out of a source; as, a stream of words; a continued current; as, the stream of life; drift or tendency; as, the stream of opinion.

part of speech: noun

A current of water or of a liquid; anything issuing or proceeding in a line or continuous body, as gas, air, light, a multitude of people, & c.; a river; anything moving onwards in a continuous course.

part of speech: verb

To move onwards in a continous course; to flow, as a liquid; to pour out in abundance; to pour; to send forth.

part of speech: verb transitive

Flow with; as, her eyes streamed tears; cause to stretch out.

Usage examples for stream:

• At last by a cool stream the path lay before him. "Indian Legends of Vancouver Island", Alfred Carmichael

• The general, perceiving their panic, called Thaddeus to him, and both plunged into the stream "Thaddeus of Warsaw", Jane Porter

• With a mere glance at the running stream high on the bank and the drowned forest beyond, he turned and faced them. "The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill", Winston Churchill

• The Robert O swung down stream for home. "The Adventures of Bobby Orde", Stewart Edward White