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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

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?d, IPA^(key): /ta?d/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /ta?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Homophone: tied

Etymology 1

From Middle English tide, from Old English t?d (“time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service”), from Proto-Germanic *t?diz (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh?itis (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y- (“to divide”). Related to time.

Noun

tide (plural tides)

1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
2. A stream, current or flood.
3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:

     Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
4. (regional, archaic) A time.

5. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).

6. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
9. (obsolete) Violent confluence

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

     They are tided down the stream.

2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.

   The ocean tided most impressively.

3. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Derived terms

• tide over

Translations

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

References

The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English t?dan (“to happen”).

Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

Synonyms

• betide, befall

Anagrams

• DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, edit, edit., tied

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tid, tyd

Etymology

From Old English t?d

Noun

tide

1. A time (period), season.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     What is singular too, the spademen seem to work lazily; they will not work double-tides, even for offer of more wages, though their tide is but seven hours[.]

Related terms

• betide

Descendants

• English: tide
• Scots: tid, tyd, tide
• ? Scottish Gaelic: tìde

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?d/

Noun

tide m or f

1. dative form of tid

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tide f

1. dative form of tid

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?.de/

Noun

t?de

1. inflection of t?d:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

See also

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tide

1. today