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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

Etymology

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sip?n?, derivative of *s?pan? (compare Middle Dutch s?pen (“to drip”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”)), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”) (compare Latin s?bum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek ???? (eíb?, “to drop, drip”). See soap.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?p, IPA^(key): /si?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Verb

seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)

1. (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To diminish or wane away slowly.

Synonyms

• leak

Noun

seep (plural seeps)

1. A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
2. Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
3. The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
4. A seafloor vent.

Translations

Translations

See also

• sip
• siphon

Anagrams

• Sepe, eeps, pees

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zeep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p/

Noun

seep (plural sepe)

1. soap

Descendants

• ? Xhosa: isepha
• ? Zulu: insipho

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German sêpe.

Noun

seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)

1. soap

Declension

Massachusett

Pronunciation

• (Revived) IPA^(key): /si?p/

Noun

seep

1. river