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单词 streamless
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
stream /strim/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a body of water flowing in a channel, as a brook.
  2. any flow or current of liquid, fluid, or gas:a stream of gas escaping.
  3. a series of things:a stream of words.

v. 
  1. to flow or pass in a stream:[no object]The river streamed past the house.
  2. to give out (a fluid): [no object]Her eyes streamed with tears.[+ object]The wound streamed blood.
  3. to extend in rays:[no object]Sunlight streamed in through the window
  4. to proceed without stopping:[no object]All day long the traffic streamed past her house.
  5. to hang in a flowing manner:[no object]Her golden hair was streaming behind her.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
stream  (strēm),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook.
  2. a steady current in water, as in a river or the ocean:to row against the stream; the Gulf Stream.
  3. any flow of water or other liquid or fluid:streams of blood.
  4. a current or flow of air, gas, or the like.
  5. a beam or trail of light:A stream of moonlight fell from the clouds.
  6. a continuous flow or succession of anything:a stream of words.
  7. prevailing direction;
    drift:the stream of opinion.
  8. on stream, in or into operation:The factory will be on stream in a month.

v.i. 
  1. to flow, pass, or issue in a stream, as water, tears, or blood.
  2. to send forth or throw off a stream;
    run or flow (often fol. by with):eyes streaming with tears.
  3. to extend in a beam or in rays, as light:Sunlight streamed in through the windows.
  4. to move or proceed continuously like a flowing stream, as a procession.
  5. to wave or float outward, as a flag in the wind.
  6. to hang in a loose, flowing manner, as long hair.

v.t. 
  1. to send forth or discharge in a stream:The wound streamed blood.
  2. to cause to stream or float outward, as a flag.
  3. Naval Terms[Naut.]to place (an object) in the water at the end of a line attached to a vessel.
  • bef. 900; (noun, nominal) Middle English streem, Old English strēam; cognate with German Strom, Old Norse straumr; akin to Greek rheîn to flow (see rheum); (verb, verbal) Middle English streamen, derivative of the noun, nominal
streamless, adj. 
streamlike′, adj. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged rill, run, streamlet, runnel. Stream, current refer to a steady flow. In this use they are interchangeable. In the sense of running water, however, a stream is a flow that may be as small as a brook or as large as a river:A number of streams have their sources in mountains.Current refers to the most rapidly moving part of the stream:This river has a swift current.
    • 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged flow, tide.
    • 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged torrent, rush.
    • 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pour.

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