Stream \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.
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            Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.
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   2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
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            A thousand suns will stream on thee.  --Tennyson.
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   3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
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   4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in
      the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
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	Streaming \Stream"ing\, a.
   Sending forth streams.
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	Streaming \Stream"ing\, n.
   1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of
      that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
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   2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for
      stream tin.
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   3. (Biol.) the rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; --
      called also protoplasmic streaming.
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	streaming
    adj 1: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming
           face"; "her streaming eyes"
    2: (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"
    n 1: the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell [syn:
         cyclosis, streaming]

	

	123 Moby Thesaurus words for "streaming":
   affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward,
   bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing,
   bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat-and-doggish, confluent,
   coursing, dangling, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent,
   down-trending, downward, drifting, drippy, driving, drizzling,
   drizzly, drooping, drumming, easy, flapping, flowing, fluent,
   flushing, fluxional, fluxive, flying, gleaming, gleamy, glinting,
   glowing, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging,
   illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, lax, light as day,
   loose, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
   luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mazy, meandering,
   misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mounting, orient, passing, pelting,
   plunging, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, profluent,
   progressive, racing, radiant, rainy, reflowing, refluent,
   regressive, relaxed, retrogressive, rickety, rising, rotary,
   rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, rutilant, rutilous,
   serpentine, shaky, shining, shiny, showery, sideward, sinking,
   slack, sloppy, sluggish, soaring, starbright, starlike, starry,
   suffused, sunny, sunshiny, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending,
   upward, vortical

	

	streaming

    Playing sound or video in real time as
   it is downloaded over the Internet as opposed to storing it
   in a local file first.  A plug-in to a web browser such as
   Netscape Navigator decompresses and plays the data as it is
   transferred to your computer over the World-Wide Web.
   Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in
   downloading an entire file and then playing it with a helper
   application.  Streaming requires a fast connection and a
   computer powerful enough to execute the decompression
   algorithm in real time.

   (1996-11-06)