stream : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stream	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for stream
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stream n a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth Synonym(s): stream, watercourse 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" Synonym(s): stream, flow, current the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression Synonym(s): flow, stream 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" Synonym(s): stream, flow a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" Synonym(s): current, stream v to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind" exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood" move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" Synonym(s): pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" Synonym(s): pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face" Synonym(s): stream, well out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stream \Stream\ (str[emac]m), n. [AS. stre[a0]m; akin to OFries. str[be]m, OS. str[d3]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str[umac]m, Dan. & Sw. str[94]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to flow, Skr. sru. [fb]174. Cf. {Catarrh}, {Diarrhea}, {Rheum}, {Rhythm}.] 1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano. 2. A beam or ray of light. [bd]Sun streams.[b8] --Chaucer. 3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. [bd]The stream of beneficence.[b8] --Atterbury. [bd]The stream of emigration.[b8] --Macaulay. 4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. [bd]The very stream of his life.[b8] --Shak. 5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners. {Gulf stream}. See under {Gulf}. {Stream anchor}, {Stream cable}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor}, and {Cable}. {Stream ice}, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in some definite direction. {Stream tin}, particles or masses of tin ore found in alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is the principal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel. {Stream works} (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. --Ure. {To float with the stream}, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton. 2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. A thousand suns will stream on thee. --Tennyson. 3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. 4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stream \Stream\, v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart. --Spenser. 2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon. 3. To unfurl. --Shak. {To stream the buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STREAM ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987]. (1995-01-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
stream 1. An {abstraction} referring to any flow of data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or receiver, consumer). A stream usually flows through a channel of some kind, as opposed to {packet}s which may be addressed and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients. Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a channel or a "{connection}" between the sender and receiver. 2. In the {C} language's buffered input/ouput library functions, a stream is associated with a file or device which has been opened using {fopen}. Characters may be read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently by the library routines. 3. Confusingly, {Sun} have called their modular {device driver} mechanism "{STREAMS}". 4. In {IBM}'s {AIX} {operating system}, a stream is a {full-duplex} processing and data transfer path between a driver in {kernel space} and a process in {user space}. [IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts, SC23-2206-03]. 5. {streaming}. 6. {lazy list}. (1996-11-06)