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Noun stream has 5 senses
- stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
--1 is a kind of body of water, water
--1 has parts: ford, crossing; meander; midstream
--1 has particulars:
- stream, flow, current - dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
--2 is a kind of course, line
- current, stream - a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"
--3 is a kind of flow, flowing
--3 has particulars:
- flow, stream - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
--4 is a kind of motion, movement, move
--4 has particulars:
- stream, flow - something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
--5 is a kind of motion
Verb stream has 5 senses
- stream - to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
--1 is one way to float, drift, be adrift, blow
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- stream - exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
--2 is one way to exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
--3 is one way to crowd, crowd together
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
--4 is one way to rain, rain down
Sample sentence:
It was streaming all day long
- stream, well out - flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
--5 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
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