different between stream vs drip

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)

1. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
2. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

3. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
4. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
5. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
6. (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.

7. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.

8. 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)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

   A flag streams in the wind.

3. (transitive) To discharge in a stream.

   The soldier's wound was streaming blood.

4. (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)

1. (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

1. stream
2. 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)

1. (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)

1. river
2. stream (of fluids), flow
3. electric current

Derived terms

• streame

Further reading

• “stream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”),Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (Britain, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
   • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)

     The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

     The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

Derived terms

• bedrip
• dripper
• dripple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

   He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

   He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Derived terms

• drip irrigation

Translations

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

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