stream
a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,196 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 15,245 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth also: watercourse
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas also: flow, current two streams of development run through American historystream of consciousness
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression also: flow
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously also: flow a stream of people emptied from the terminalthe museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) also: current the raft floated downstream on the currenthe felt a stream of air
verb
- 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 sweatHis nose streamed blood
- move in large numbers also: pour, swarm, teem, pullulate people were pouring out of the theaterbeggars pullulated in the plaza
stream in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Oh, if he could but get down to that stream!
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1
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And feeling sure 'twould answer well, He dropp'd the stream a line.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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They walked on as if they were floating on a summer stream.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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Immediately, when this stronger influence was felt, the drivers zigzagged back up stream to start a fresh batch.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1