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streamlined, ppl. a.|ˈstriːmlaɪnd|
Also stream-lined.
[f. prec. + -ed1 (early uses derived from the n.).]
1. Having a streamline form; designed so as to reduce air or water resistance.
1913Aeroplane 30 Oct. 480/1 Its [sc. an aeroplane's] small span and carefully streamlined body. 1916[see clean a. 13 c]. 1928C. F. S. Gamble Story North Sea Air Station 10 Her two stream-lined gondolas..were designed to be capable of sustaining severe impact loads when alighting on water. 1930Observer 16 Feb. 17/5 She has oval, instead of stream-lined funnels. 1948M. Laski Tory Heaven iv. 58 I'd thought of..one of the old Lagondas..but I believe everything's streamlined these days. 1968O. S. Nock Railway Enthusiast's Encycl. 279 From 1923 onwards, the ‘Cheltenham Flyer’ of the G.W.R. claimed the honours until the advent of the L.N.E.R. streamlined trains. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 439 Nowadays even the ocean liners were streamlined, hulls shaped like destroyers to get there faster.
2. fig.
a. Having smooth, flowing, or elongated lines; slender.
1934H. Read Art & Industry 3 ‘Streamlined’ is popularly, if inaccurately, used as a term of approval for the design of any object in daily use. 1935Amer. Speech X. 194/1 Terminology from other fields aids the fashion editors... The streamlined silhouette came in with the new automobile. 1937Nation 15 May 559/2 The cows came from their stables down a runway into a streamlined building. 1944A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. v. 63 The effects of shearing or flowage give the rocks a new structure, due to the stream-lined arrangement of the platy and elongated minerals. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 96/1 Streamlined, synthetic blondes—these are at once abstract and exciting. 1966Wodehouse Plum Pie 75 Dieting continues to be all the go..and the number of those who hope to become streamlined by pushing their plates away untasted increases daily. 1976Country Life 1 Apr. 805/2 The two aspects of the ubiquitous Deco that have caused such confusion in recent terminology, the one still curved and flowing (Streamlined Moderne), the other angular and machine-style (Zig-Zag Moderne).
b. Efficient; simplified, having inessentials removed.
1937Words May 100/1 Our streamlined professors. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xvii. 128 Clever women..manipulated high statesmen, financiers and stream-lined executives as if the men were marionettes. 1947A. Huxley Let. 9 Mar. (1969) 568 We might think in greater detail about..a stream-lined construction for the revised Goldsmith. 1957L. F. R. Williams State of Israel ix. 156 This..end is secured by an ingenious, stream-lined, procedure which makes the guillotine unnecessary. 1971Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 15/5 A streamlined, yet cosy, kitchen overlooks a tiny paved garden. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 3 c/2 The majority's reasons for dissolving the former trustees included a desire..to make ‘more streamlined’ decisions regarding control of health care costs and treatment of indigents. |