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deluge
English
Etymology
From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin d?luvium, from d?lu? (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?l.ju?d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?l.ju(d)?/, /d??lu(d)?/
Noun
deluge (plural deluges)
- A great flood or rain.
- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
- The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
- (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
- 2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
- In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
- 2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
Translations
Verb
deluge (third-person singular simple present deluges, present participle deluging, simple past and past participle deluged)
- (transitive) To flood with water.
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
Translations
References
- 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
See also
- inundate
Middle English
Alternative forms
- diluge
Etymology
From Old French deluge, from Latin d?luvium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??liu?d?(?)/
Noun
deluge (Late Middle English)
- A deluge; a massive flooding or raining.
- (rare, figuratively) Any cataclysmic or catastrophic event.
Descendants
- English: deluge
References
- “d?l??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin d?luvium.
Noun
deluge m (oblique plural deluges, nominative singular deluges, nominative plural deluge)
- large flood
Descendants
- French: déluge
- ? Middle English: deluge
- English: deluge
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stream
English
Etymology
From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English str?am, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ????? (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srov? (“current, stream”) Polish strumie? (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: str?m, IPA(key): /st?i?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
stream (plural streams)
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
- (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
- (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
- (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A live stream.
Synonyms
- (small river): beck, brook, burn
Hyponyms
- (small river): rill
- (moving water): river
Derived terms
- airstream
- downstream
- Gulf Stream
- jet stream
- live stream
- misfit stream
- overfit stream
- streamer
- streamlet
- streamling
- underfit stream
- upstream
Translations
Verb
stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)
- (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
- A flag streams in the wind.
- (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
- The soldier's wound was streaming blood.
- (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- 'maters, Amster, METARs, Master, armest, armets, master, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, tamers, tremas, trémas
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English stream.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stri?m/
- Hyphenation: stream
Noun
stream m (plural streams)
- (computing, Internet) A stream.
Related terms
- livestream
- streamen
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *straum.
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian str?m, Old Saxon str?m, Old High German stroum, Old Norse straumr. Extra-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (rheûma), Polish strumie?, Albanian rrymë (“flow, current”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stræ???m/
Noun
str?am m
- stream
- current
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: strem, streem
- English: stream
- Scots: streme, streim
See also
- ?a (“river”)
- g?rse?? (“ocean”)
- mere (“lake”)
- s? (“sea”)
Spanish
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?t?im/, [es?t???m]
- IPA(key): /?est?in/, [?es.t???n]
Noun
stream m (plural streams)
- (computing) stream
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian str?m, from Proto-West Germanic *straum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str???m/
Noun
stream c (plural streamen, diminutive streamke)
- river
- stream (of fluids), flow
- electric current
Derived terms
- streame
Further reading
- “stream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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