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direction
English
Etymology
From Middle English direccioun, from Old French direccion, from Latin d?r?cti?. Equivalent to direct +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d(a)????k.??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
direction (countable and uncountable, plural directions)
- A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- A general trend for future action.
- Guidance, instruction.
- The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
- (dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
- (archaic) A person's address.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 218:
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 218:
Derived terms
Related terms
- direct
Translations
Anagrams
- cretinoid
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?r?cti?, d?r?cti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.??k.sj??/
Noun
direction f (plural directions)
- (spatial) direction
- (figuratively) direction
- government
- (figuratively) the director of the administration/organisation
- (occasional, figurative) the territory administered by a government
Derived terms
- direction assistée
Related terms
- directeur
- diriger
Descendants
- ? Turkish: direksiyon
Further reading
- “direction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
direction (plural directiones)
- direction (orientation, point where one is headed)
- direction, leadership, control, supervision
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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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