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streams definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. A beam or ray of light.
n. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
n. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
n. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
v. i. 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.
v. i. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
v. i. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
v. i. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
v. t. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
v. t. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
v. t. To unfurl.

Crossword clues for streams

- A brook
- A watercourse
- Broken arm set in jet
- Brook
- Brook right in the mist
- Continuous flow of liquid
- Creek
- Flow
- Get right into steam from little river
- It flows from master switch
- Little river
- Master switch in jet
- Rivulet
- slow moving outlet of a lake
- Small narrow river
- Small river
- Small watercourse
- Steady current of water
- Steady flow
- Water source
- Rivulets
- Small rivers
- Small, narrow rivers