streamnoun [ C ]
uk/striːm/us/striːm/stream noun [ C ] (SMALL RIVER)
B1 water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ground level:
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- This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.
- The stream was quite shallow so we were able to walk across it.
- The stream glinted in the moonlight.
- She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
- With one leap he crossed the stream.
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Watercourses & waterfalls
- arroyo
- barrage
- bayou
- beck
- brook
- burn
- cascade
- downriver
- Euphrates
- ghat
- gully
- headwater
- Mississippi
- rapids
- rivulet
- sluice
- spate
- upriver
- watercourse
- watershed
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stream noun [ C ] (CONTINUOUS FLOW)
any current of water or liquid:
the direction in which water is moving:
B2 a continuous flow of things or people:
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- A steady stream of students came out of the room.
- He hurled a stream of abuse at her.
- A steady stream of tourists emerged from the cathedral.
- Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.
- Parties, drugs, and a stream of glamorous women - his was a life in the fast lane.
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Watercourses & waterfalls
- arroyo
- barrage
- bayou
- beck
- brook
- burn
- cascade
- downriver
- Euphrates
- ghat
- gully
- headwater
- Mississippi
- rapids
- rivulet
- sluice
- spate
- upriver
- watercourse
- watershed
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stream noun [ C ] (STUDENTS)
UK US track a group of school students with similar ability who are approximately the same age and are taught together:
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Students & pupils
- -grader
- alumna
- alumnus
- attrition
- batchmate
- boarder
- entrant
- frosh
- graduate
- houseman
- infant
- internship
- learner
- pupil
- schoolchild
- schoolgirl
- schoolmate
- sixth-former
- sophomore
- theologian
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Idiom(s)
streamverb
uk/striːm/us/striːm/stream verb (FLOW)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to flow somewhere or produce liquid, quickly and in large amounts without stopping:
to move continuously in one direction:
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Advancing and moving forward
- advance
- advancing
- approach
- beeline
- come
- come over
- come up
- gain
- gain on sb/sth
- glide
- head
- make
- make for somewhere/sth
- make towards sth/sb
- proceed
- pull
- push
- slide
- slip
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stream verb (INTERNET)
[ T ] to listen to or watch sound or video on a computer directly from the internet rather than downloading it and saving it first
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Operating computers
- aliasing
- always-on
- black hat
- BMP
- caps lock (key)
- computerize
- cut
- enter
- fire
- format
- hacker
- hash
- keyboarder
- punch
- roll (sth) over sth
- scroll bar
- title bar
- touchscreen
- uninstall
- zip
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stream verb (STUDENTS)
[ T ] UK US track to group and teach together school students with similar abilities who are approximately the same age:
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- format
- kingdom
- organization
- precedence
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- tick sth off
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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