STREAMING

streaming

(adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; “streaming audio”; “streaming video recording”

streaming

(adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; “his streaming face”; “her streaming eyes”

cyclosis, streaming

(noun) the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

streaming (comparative more streaming, superlative most streaming)

Flowing or moving in continuous succession, like fluid in a stream.

Synonyms: fluent, onrushing, Thesaurus:flowing

Verb

streaming

present participle of stream

Etymology 2

Noun

streaming (usually uncountable, plural streamings)

Movement as a stream.

(computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.

(UK, education) Division of classes into academic streams.

Synonym: tracking

The working of alluvial deposits to get ore.

Anagrams

• Germanist, emigrants, man-tigers, mastering, remasting, rematings

Source: Wiktionary


Stream"ing, a.

Definition: Sending forth streams.

Stream"ing, n.

1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

2. (Mining)

Definition: The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.

STREAM

Stream, n. Etym: [AS. streám; akin to OFries. stram, OS. strom, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. sru. *174. Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea, Rheum, Rhythm.]

1. A current water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

2. A beam or ray of light. "Sun streams." Chaucer.

3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The stream of beneficence." Atterbury. "The stream of emigration." Macaulay.

4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. "The very stream of his life." Shak.

5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners. Gulf stream. See under Gulf.

– Stream anchor, Stream cable. (Naut.) See under Anchor, and Cable.

– Stream ice, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in some definite direction.

– Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is the principal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel.

– Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. Ure.

– To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.

Syn.

– Current; flow; rush; tide; course.

– Stream, Current. These words are often properly interchangeable; but stream is the broader word, denoting a prevailing onward course. The stream of the Mississippi rolls steadily on to the Gulf of Mexico, but there are reflex currents in it which run for a while in a contrary direction.

Stream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Streamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Streaming.]

1. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes. Beneath those banks where rivers stream. Milton.

2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. A thousand suns will stream on thee. Tennyson.

3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

Stream, v. t.

Definition: To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart. Spenser.

2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. Bacon.

3. To unfurl. Shak. To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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