stream

[ streem ]
/ strim /

noun

verb (used without object)

verb (used with object)

Idioms for stream

    on stream, in or into operation: The factory will be on stream in a month.

Origin of stream

before 900; (noun) Middle English streem, Old English strēam; cognate with German Strom, Old Norse straumr; akin to Greek rheîn to flow (see rheum); (v.) Middle English streamen, derivative of the noun

synonym study for stream

Stream, current refer to a steady flow. In this use they are interchangeable. In the sense of running water, however, a stream is a flow that may be as small as a brook or as large as a river: A number of streams have their sources in mountains. Current refers to the most rapidly moving part of the stream: This river has a swift current.

OTHER WORDS FROM stream

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH stream

brook creek river stream

British Dictionary definitions for outstream

stream
/ (striːm) /

noun

verb

Derived forms of stream

streamlet, noun streamlike, adjective

Word Origin for stream

Old English; related to Old Frisian strām, Old Norse straumr, Old High German stroum, Greek rheuma

Scientific definitions for outstream

stream
[ strēm ]

A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
A flow of a watery substance, such as blood in blood vessels or cytoplasm in fungal hyphae, in an organism or in part of an organism.

Idioms and Phrases with outstream

stream

see change horses in midstream; swim against the current (stream).