6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Streamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Streaming}.] 1. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes. [1913 Webster] Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. [1913 Webster] A thousand suns will stream on thee. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. [1913 Webster] 4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Streaming \Stream"ing\, a. Sending forth streams. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Streaming \Stream"ing\, n. 1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin. [1913 Webster] 3. (Biol.) the rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; -- called also {protoplasmic streaming}. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: streaming adj 1: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming face"; "her streaming eyes" 2: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall" [syn: {flowing}] 3: (of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook" [syn: {flowing}] n : the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell [syn: {cyclosis}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 123 Moby Thesaurus words for "streaming": affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat-and-doggish, confluent, coursing, dangling, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drooping, drumming, easy, flapping, flowing, fluent, flushing, fluxional, fluxive, flying, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging, illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, lax, light as day, loose, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mazy, meandering, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mounting, orient, passing, pelting, plunging, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, profluent, progressive, racing, radiant, rainy, reflowing, refluent, regressive, relaxed, retrogressive, rickety, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, rutilant, rutilous, serpentine, shaky, shining, shiny, showery, sideward, sinking, slack, sloppy, sluggish, soaring, starbright, starlike, starry, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending, upward, vortical From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: streamingPlaying {sound} or {video} in {real time} as it is downloaded over the {Internet} as opposed to storing it in a local file first. A {plug-in} to a {web browser} such as {Netscape Navigator} decompresses and plays the data as it is transferred to your computer over the {World-Wide Web}. Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in downloading an entire file and then playing it with a {helper application}. Streaming requires a fast connection and a computer powerful enough to execute the decompression {algorithm} in {real time}. (1996-11-06)
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