streamn.
/striːm/, U.S. /strim/ 1.
a. A course of water flowing continuously along a bed on the earth, forming a river, rivulet, or brook.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river
floodc825
streamc875
eaeOE
water streamOE
flumec1175
fleamc1300
riverc1300
currentc1380
reea1500
ford1563
fluent1598
draught1601
nymph1605
amnic1623
flux1637
nullah1656
R1692
currency1758
silent highway1841
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > course
gangeOE
streama1552
train1570
sweep1596
river channel1629
currency1657
thread1691
current1708
urn1726
river run1927
c875 Erfurt Gloss. 2036 in Old Eng. Texts 102 Torrentibus, streaumum.
a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 172 Swa stent eall weoruld.., streamas ymbutan.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10640 Nu he stant on hulle & Auene bi-haldeð. hu ligeð i þan stræme [c1300 Otho streme] stelene fisces.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1316 He saw a spring Of a well..Þat oute of ran four gret stremmes; Gyson, fison, tigre, eufrate.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2096 Ðo drempte pharaon king a drem, Ðat he stod bi ðe flodes strem.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 464 She hadde passed many a straunge strem.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xix. 144 Aboue ther by was the hede of the streme a fayr fontayne.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 61 For there the Streme of Isis breketh into many Armelets. The Fery [Hinkesey] selfe is over the principale Arme or Streame of Isis.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 62 'Tis like the murmuring of a stream, which not varying in the fall, causes at first attention, at last drowsiness.
1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland viii. 48 The River Eden..takes into its Stream the Rivers Eamont and Lowther, which make a considerable Increase to it.
1745 Sc. Transl. & Paraphr. xxiv. 1 Say, grows the Rush without the Mire? the Flag without the Stream?
1782 W. Cowper Compar. 9 Streams never flow in vain; where streams abound, How laughs the land with various plenty crown'd!
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv, in Poems (new ed.) 17 The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 9 The Lower Nez Percés range upon the Way-lee-way, Immahah, Yenghies, and other of the streams west of the mountains.
1871 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 160 The first thing the King of any country has to do is to manage the streams of it.
b. Appended to a river-name. Now only poetic.
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c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John i. 28 Ofer iordanen ðone stream [L. trans. Jordanem].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10616 Þa al wes Auene stram [c1300 Otho strem] mid stele ibrugged.
c1275 Moral Ode 244 in Old Eng. Misc. Ne may hit quenche no salt water ne auene strem ne sture.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) iii. E 6 Now downe the streame of Rodanus the fleet From Stæchas comes to sea.
1808 Ld. Byron Well! thou art Happy 35 Oh! where is Lethe's fabled stream?
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxviii. 40 High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream.
c. poetic as a type of pure water for drinking.
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the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > for drinking
streamc1275
Adam's ale1643
Adam's wine1747
drinking-water1888
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9858 For þe king ne mai on duȝeðe bruken nanes drenches. buten cald welles stræm [c1300 Otho water].
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 546 Nor did the dancing Rubie Sparkling, out-pow'rd,..Allure thee from the cool Crystalline stream . View more context for this quotation
a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 87 Famine at feasts, or thirst amid the stream.
d. In plural, the waters (of a river). poetic.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > river water > [noun]
running waterOE
river watera1398
streams?a1535
fresha1552
blood1852
runnage1864
?a1535 To City of London (Vitellius) in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 277 Thy Ryuer..Whose beryall stremys, pleasaunt and preclare, Under thy lusty wallys renneth down.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iv. ii. 13 O beautious Tyber, with thine easie streames That glide as smothly as a Parthian shaft.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) iii. E 1 And where vnder sea Alphæus sends his streames to Sicily.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 4 A river of considerable magnitude pours its streams through a narrow vale.
e. A rivulet or brook, as contrasted with a river.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun]
burnc1000
strind?c1225
stranda1240
flowinga1382
gole?a1400
watercoursea1450
riparya1475
glide1590
lympha1630
stream1803
floss1865
strool1867
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Whithern,..a royal borough..seated on the bay of Wigton, where a small stream of water falling into it forms a harbour.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. iii. 34 The Sarnus;—that river, which now has shrunk into a petty stream.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 412/1 Stream, a small land current of water.
2. † b. A flood, unrestrained outbreak of waters.† e. to break the stream: to pass through water belonging to the jurisdiction of one port in order to load or unload at another port. Obsolete.
a. Flow or current of a river; force, volume, or direction of flow.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun]
runninga1398
goutc1400
stream14..
flowingc1440
watercourse1552
current1555
fluxc1600
gliding1600
fluor1642
currency1657
lapse1667
shoot1799
flowage1830
come1862
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > flow
stream14..
stream-flow1902
14.. in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 42 Then the strenghe of the streme astoned hem stronge.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 Doun throu the ryce a ryuir ran wyth stremys, So lustily agayn thai lykand lemys That [etc.].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 693/2 I ronne, as the streame of any ryver or water dothe, je cours.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. ii. 221 He departed from thence by the very edge of the river bankes, where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither on every side.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 86 My wife and I..Fastned our selues at eyther end the mast, And floating straight, obedient to the streame, Was carried towards Corinth. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre ii. 66 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Soon after, the River had the wonted stream and was Navigable again.
1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler iii. 37 I could never..discern perfectly where my flie was, the wind and stream carrying it so to and again, that [etc.].
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1831) IV. xxii. 212 As in rivers.., whose very essence is incompatible with a real identity. For the essence of a river consists in having a stream, that is, a perpetual change of waters.
1889 Mrs. Pennell in Cent. Mag. Aug. 484 For two persons who knew nothing about boats and could not swim, the Thames journey with such a stream running was not promising.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vii. 27 Cuomon streamas [L. venerunt flumina] & gebleuun windas.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1852 Til seuensith tuenti dais war gan Þe streme it stud ai still in-an.
c. A current in the sea. Cf. Gulf Stream n.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > sea
sea-streamOE
streamc1405
ocean current1837
ocean-river1852
land-stream1868
slope current1931
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 404 To rekene wel his tydes His stremys, and his daungers hym bisides.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 684 Quhar als gret stremys ar rynnand,..As Is the rais off Bretangȝe.
1546 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 148 Fyndynge the sayde shyppe..dryvynge with the streamys as a wayff and forsaken of all creatures.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 59 It swallyis vp hail schipis, and throuch the violence, and vehement force of contrare workeng of the wais of the sey, quhen ilke streme stryues with vthir, drounes thame in the deip.
1687 Relation De Chaumont's Embassy Siam 17 The Streams were so great, and running sometimes against us, that we were forced oft to cast Anchor; for when the Calm took us, the Streams forcibly carried us a great distance.
a1830 J. Rennell Investig. Currents Atlantic Ocean (1832) 22 The Equatorial Current..is, doubtless, the most powerful and the longest extended stream of all those in the Atlantics.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand ii. 11/2 I have seldom seen the stream [i.e. the Gulf Stream] so distinct hereabouts.
d. The middle part of a current or tide, as having the greatest force of flow.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > main part
stream1398
strength1544
mainstream?1585
stream-way1822
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xviii. 448 Comynly the streme hath most fresshe water and most clene grounde, and rennyth moost swyftly than any other parte of the ryuer.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stream, Anglo-Saxon for flowing water, meaning especially the middle or most rapid part of a tide or current.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > pass through area of another port to unload
to break the stream1496
1496 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 56, No. 4b) Misericordia xii d. de Willelmo Heyward quod fregit le streyme usque heybregge cum navicula sua.
f. Phrases. (a) against, with the stream. Often in figurative context (cf. 6), e.g. to strive against the stream, to resist the influences of one's environment, to oppose prevailing tendencies; to go, sail, swim with the stream, to yield to pressure of circumstances or example. (b) down, up the stream, †downward the stream. See also downstream adv., upstream adv.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [adverb] > with
against, with the streamc1000
down, up the streamc1000
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > against the prevailing tendency
against, with the stream1546
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [adverb] > against
against, with the stream1555
down, up the stream1560
upstream1681
society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [adverb]
subjectly?1529
sufferantlya1550
submissively1572
against, with the stream1579
subjectively1579
submissly1595
submittinglya1628
hands down1896
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in > to circumstances
to go, sail, swim with the stream1579
(a)
(b)a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4780 He sagh a-pon þe water reme Caf flettand dunward [with] þe strem.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxv They brought in vitayle both vp the streame & down [L. aduerso & secundo flumine].a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 67 But the Ryver being deepe and strong in that Place where he entred it, he was carried downe the streame.c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 70 Sing þis..horse on þæt wynstre eare on yrnendum wætre & wend þæt heafod ongean stream.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 [Heo] bi-gon to swimmen forðward mid þe streme.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2261 Scipen þer heo funden. makede muchul sæ-flot and ferden mid streme.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 93 Riht as a Schip ayein the strem, He routeth with a slepi noise.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 582 By the grete strenghte of the fysshes it [sc. the corpse] was taried, and went noo ferder with the streme, by the wille of our lorde.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hii Foly it is to spurne against a pricke, To striue agaynst the streme, to winche or kicke Agaynst the hard wall.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 160v Turnynge the stemmes or forpartes of their shyppes ageynst the streame.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 54/2 Yet suffer we all these things to passe, and goe with the streame.
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes in Wks. (1904) I. 321 This..is nothing else but to swim with the streame.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 59 b Because the multitude fauours Religion, he runnes with the streame, and fauours Religion.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 43 I have done it against the streame of my resolution quite.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 57 To tell you, how much in vain it is for you to strive against the stream of the peoples inclination.
1708 Constitutions Company Watermen & Lightermen xxix If any Waterman Rowing with the Tide or Stream, shall neglect to give Notice or Warning..to all Persons Rowing cross or against the Stream or Tide.
1711 Let. to Sacheverel 30 There is hardly a Man, who does not swim with the Stream, that has not been..insulted.
1714 A. Pope Corr. 25 July (1956) I. 239 No man ever rose to any degree of perfection in writing, but through obstinacy and an inveterate resolution against the stream of mankind.
a1771 T. Gray tr. T. Tasso in Wks. (1814) II. 90 Against the stream the waves secure he trod.
1937 W. R. Inge Rustic Moralist iv. i. 234 What ought the helpless intelligentsia to do? Not to float with the stream, a feat which any dead dog can accomplish.
g. Nautical. in, †upon the stream: see quot. 1863.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [phrase] > at anchor > away from shore in a river
in, upon the stream1473
1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 67 His schip and gudis that wes fundin vpon the streme and na man with hir, and was eschetit as the Kingis eschete.
1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 280 Thair schippis hes lang tyme lyne on the Streme, and the maist part of thame becum lek.
1577 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 626 For bying and resset of unlauchful gudis upoun the streame.
1860 All Year Round 28 July 379/2 She's in the stream, sir. Yonder she [a yacht] lays.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 396 A vessel in a river is said to be in the stream, when she is lying off from the shore so that they have to communicate with her by means of boats.
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the world > the earth > water > [noun]
watereOE
streamc950
floodOE
water floodc1175
wave1590
open water1790
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]
sea-floodc893
brimc937
streamc950
foamOE
mereOE
seaOE
sea of (the) oceanc1300
brookc1400
float1477
strand1513
breec1540
burnc1540
broth1558
Thetisie1600
fishpond1604
brine1605
pond1612
Thetisc1620
brack1627
herring-pond1686
tide1791
black water1816
lave1825
briny1831
salt water1839
blue1861
swan's bath1865
puddle1869
ditch1922
oggin1945
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. viii. 18 Fara vel gaa ofer luh vel stream [L. trans fretum].
?11.. Charter of Eadweard ( a.d. 1066) in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 193 Tolles and teames, on strande and on streame.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3049 Ofer þane saltne strem [c1300 Otho streme].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1612 Þa olde king..lette heo forðe liðen. ofer þa stremes.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1843 On þe streme þe arche can ride.
13.. K. Horn (Harl.) 105 Þare fore þou shalt to streme go.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Skeat) 2508 Yit hath the streem of Sitho [Ovid Sithonis unda] nat y-broght From Athenes the ship.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii* Schipmen our the streme thai stithil full straught.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 187 On salt stremis wolx Dorynda and Thetis, By rynnand strandis Nymphis and Naedes.
1551 King Edward VI Lit. Remains (Roxb.) II. 327 Also the French embassadour was advertised [of the Flemish ships]; who answered that he thought him sure inough when he came into our streames,—terming it so.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 811/1 Whereas peace was yet betweene England and Scotland, that they contrarie to that, as theeues & pirats, had robbed the kings subiects within his streames.
c1602 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies iii. v. sig. E3v T'is said the slippery streame held vp her brest.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia x. 419 With fleetes he cuts the Ocean streames.
4. † b. Strength or volume of flow. Obsolete.† d. An effluvium. Obsolete.† e. An emanation. Obsolete.
a. A flow or current of water or other liquid issuing from a source, orifice, or vessel. Often hyperbolically in singular or plural for a great effusion of blood or tears.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > [noun] > an emission, in a flow
stream971
plume1854
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness > a profusion or lavish abundance > viewed as flowing or falling
stream971
flood1340
affluencec1390
showera1425
spatec1425
delugec1430
rain1590
spring tide1592
cataract?1614
flux1678
971 Blickl. Hom. 59 Ealle þa gewitaþ swa swa wolcn, & swa swa wæteres stream, & ofer þæt nahwær eft ne æteowaþ.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2479 Þet ter rinneð aa mare eoile iliche riue, & strikeð a stream ut of þat stanene þruh.
a1225 St. Marher. 5 Þæt tet blod barst ut ant strac adun of hire bodi as stream deð of welle.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 88 Swa largelich..fleau þet ilke blodi swat..þet þe stremes urnen dun to þe eorðe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15469 Blod orn in þe weiȝe strames [c1300 Otho stremes] swiðe brade.
a1300 Floriz & Bl. (Cambr.) 228 In þe tur þer is a welle... He vrneþ in o pipe of bras..Fram flore in to flore þe strimes vrneþ store.
a1300 Havelok 2687 On þe feld was neuere a polk þat it ne stod of blod so ful þat þe strem ran intil þe heel.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lxi. 177 The veynes haue that name, for they ben the wayes..of the stremes of the fletynge of the blood.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10661 Myche watur he weppit..Ouer-flowet his face, fell on his brest With streamys out straght þurgh his stithe helme.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 230 She lowdly did lament and shrike, Pouring forth streames of teares abundantly.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. viii. 37 Traitors..That would reduce these bloudy daies againe, And make poore England weepe in streames of bloud. View more context for this quotation
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. ix. 144 Certaine pits being digg'd downe into the ground 2 hundred or three hundred foot deepe, will discouer many great Streames of Water.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 419 Last of all we came to the Labyrinth in which a huge Colosse of Jupiter, that throws out a streame over the Garden.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 478 The Wound pours out a Stream of Wine and Blood.
1798 W. Roscoe tr. L. Tansillo Nurse (1800) i. 33 Say can ye choose a nurse from broad St. Giles? Heedless what venom taints the stream she gives.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxx. 48 To meditate 'gainst friends the secret blow,..whence life's warm stream must flow.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 121 The water thus collected, runs in a continued stream out of the box.
1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus I. iii From the strong muscular arm of the knight, a stream of blood was just beginning to flow into a small wooden bowl held by a page.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 299 Glasses may be prepared..by pouring a thin stream of melted wax down the side of the glass.
1881 R. T. Cooke Somebody's Neighbors 84 The sharp streams of milk spun and foamed into the pail below.
1899 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. IV. 79 Wine and ale..flowed in streams.
1913 Times 13 Aug. 3/4 Drugs..which will kill the parasite in the blood and lymph streams of the body, have no effect upon the parasites in the brain.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > strength or volume of flow
streamc1290
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 17 Þat blod sprong out with gret strem.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 282 We must observe the Colour, Stream and Pulse in Bleeding, and stop as the Colour changes, or the Stream falls.
c. A current or flow of air, gas, electricity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a current of air
windc1000
air-current1600
streama1722
draughta1774
air draught1786
waft1863
airstream1869
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > flow of electricity > [noun]
stream1777
the world > matter > gas > [noun] > a flow of
jet1825
stream1836–41
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 211 They find great relief by the stream of air which runs along the rutts.
1754 W. Henry in Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 1 A stream of wind instantly ensued, the violence of which nothing could resist.
1777 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. 208 And if the excitation of the cylinder is very powerful, dense streams of fire will proceed from the rubber.
1795 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. (ed. 4) II. 117 With such machines, the power of Electricity should be so regulated, as to apply every degree of it with facility and readiness; beginning with a stream issuing out of a metal point.
1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 491 When a stream of sulphuretted hydrogen gas is passed through it.
a1866 B. Taylor Voy. Dream in Poems 66 Sweep downward streams of air.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of intangible things or particles from an object > that which > minute particles
stream1677
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. xiii. 103 Those conceits that Men have of God, whereby they mould and frame him in their fancies,..are Streams and Vapours from this Pit.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xxiii. 194 These Temptations..are like the opening of a Sepulchre, which sends forth a poysonous stream which may infect those that loath and resist it.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 23 Nature for the most part acts by subtile streams and aporrhœa's of minute particles.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of intangible things or particles from an object > that which
streamc1374
expiration1576
project1596
deflux1603
defluxion1603
effluence1603
resultation1603
resultance1611
resultancy1613
effluxion1625
effluency1646
emanation1646
efflux1647
issue1659
emission1664
offshoot1674
elapsea1677
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 305 He..was full unwar that love had his dwellinge Withinne the subtile stremes of hir yen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18986 Yur eldrin men sal dremes dreme, And o mi gast þai sal ha streme.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1855 With fantasyes, tryfyls, illusions & dremes, Wyche poetys call Morpheus stremes.
f. See on stream adv. and on stream adj.
5. transferred.† b. A line, streak. Obsolete.
a. An uninterrupted succession of persons, animals, or things, moving constantly in the same direction.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > in disconnected line > procession or succession of moving people or objects
stream1600
crocodile1912
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 289 The which inuested her rounde with a great streame of fire and shotte.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 359 And then lay ouerthrowne Numbers beneath their axle-trees; who, (lying in flight's streame) Made th' after chariots iot and iumpe in driuing ouer them.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxvii. 79 Emmanuel the Emperour..fortified his cities in the way, as knowing there needed strong banks where such a stream of people was to passe.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. xviii. 119 He followed the stream of people.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. 445 A stream of bubbles should be disengaged.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 307 Streams of people apparently without end poured on and on.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 238 At present a constant stream of emigration runs from Ireland to our great towns.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vi. 124 Very large flocks of swifts were observed flying over the plains... I counted a stream of them.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow object (varied general uses)
straina1529
trait1561
thread1593
stream1597
wire1601
streak1726
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Actilia Partial gilt, with spranges or streames of Gold fuilȝie.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 133 I perceived..a stream or streak of a brown stain, the breadth of a pin, in the first joint above the root.
c. Tin-mining. (See quot. 1855.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > course > of tin ore
stream1778
tin-floor1839
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 133 The principal part of the Stream..is intermixed with stones, gravel, and clay.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 200 This stream-tin is either met with in a pulverized sandy state, in separate stones called shodes, or in a continued course of stones... This course is called a stream.
d. In a polar ice-field: see quot. 1835.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > ice-field or pack-ice
ice field1694
field1695
ice-island1750
field ice1772
ice isle1777
pack1791
stream1817
ice pack1835
pedregal1839
pack ice1842
stream-ice1856
1817 W. Scoresby in Ann. Reg., Chron. 531 It [sc. a collection of pieces of drift-ice] is called a stream when its shape is more of an oblong.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage Explan. Terms p. xv A stream, a number of pieces of ice joining each other in a ridge or in any particular direction.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiv. 101 Broken floes running out into ‘streams’ were on all sides of us.
6. figurative.† c. to give stream to: to set in motion (one's power). Obsolete.
a. In various applications, e.g.: A continuous flow of discourse, words, or of time; a continuous series of testimonies, events, or influences tending in one direction; an outflow (of beneficence, etc.), an influx (of wealth, revenue).Wordsworth's expression stream of tendency (quot. 1814) is often mentioned with ridicule by writers of the first half of the 19th cent. It was subsequently in common use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > copious or continuous > instance of
streamc900
wellOE
outstreaminga1398
flood1589
profluvium1603
shower1656
gush1704
outgushing1823
outgush1835
outwelling1852
out-flood1859
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [noun] > continuous succession > a continuous series or course > a continuous flow of something immaterial
streamc900
random1440
reflow1614
flow1641
white noise1976
c900 Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. 94 Her yrneð up se æftra stream þære godcundan spræce, se cymð of þære rynelan þæs gastlican æsprynges.
1523 T. Cromwell Speech to Parl. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 30 Whereoff there were no dowte but that ryght haboundant stremys shuld from his most liberall magnyfysence be dereuyed into euery parte of this his Realme to the grete Inryching..of..all suche as hereafter showld lyue under hys obeysaunce.
1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ep. Ded. This flowing streame of wordes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 70 Wee see which way the streame of Time doth runne.
1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 177 The constant streame of ancient, of moderne Interpreters..haue giuen this orthodox receiued Exposition.
1675 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 14 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 Charles R. Our soveraigne lord knowing that it belongs to his majesty's crowne and prerogative royall to confer dignities and titles of honour on his well deserving subjects from whence as from the fountaine all the streames of honour doe flow.
1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. xi. 193 I have already given many Testimonies of the ancient Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and could, if need were, produce many more, the whole stream of them running this way.
1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 98 For this is to speak or write English in Purity and Perfection, to let the Streams run clear and unmix'd, without taking in other Languages in the Course.
1719 D. Waterland Vindic. Christ's Divinity Contents, Query xxviii Whether it be at all probable..that the whole Stream of Christian Writers should mistake in telling us what the Sense of the Church was.
1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. iii. 276 When we turn our thought to a future object, our fancy flows along the stream of time.
1769 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 189 It must be of infinite importance, that the whole stream of the petitions should, as much as possible, run one way.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 65 The quit-rents..will pour large streams of wealth into the royal coffers.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ix. 391 To commune with the invisible world, And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation or our thought, A clear sonorous voice. View more context for this quotation
1846 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 356 Authentic history, as we ascend the stream of time, grows thinner and scantier.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. viii. 678 Friends are encouraged..to keep up a stream of talk.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. i. 3 The original stream of influence has been turned aside in its course.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) iii. xxiii. 355 For there is a broad and deep stream of evidence to show [etc.].
1896 L. T. Hobhouse Theory of Knowl. ii. xix. 465 Think of the whole page as the stream of time advancing from the top downwards.
1900 J. E. Ellis in Corr. rel. Polit. Situation S. Africa 12 We want a stream of facts concerning suppression of telegrams, opening of letters, arbitrary arrests, [etc.].
1914 B. Russell Our Knowl. External World vi. 167 A truer image of the world..is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside.
b. The prevailing direction of opinion or fashion. †Also, the majority, main body (of a class of persons).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > prevailing tendency or spirit
mainstream1599
current1613
stream1614
spirita1616
tone1641
power curve1968
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > greater number, majority
moeOE
unfewc1175
most?a1400
most forcea1400
substancea1413
overmatch1542
flush1592
the (great, vast) mass of1604
the millions1604
stream1614
numbers1638
the multiplicity of1639
majority1650
1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 12 Yet the streame of vulgar opinion is such, as it imposeth a necessity vpon men of value to conforme them-selues; or else there is no liuing or looking vpon mens faces.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 6 He reflected upon God in common events, more ordinarily then the generall streame of the Clergy did in those dayes.
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 427 I find the stream of this Court to run mightily against him.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > cause to operate [verb (transitive)] > put in effective operation
yieldc1315
underbear1382
to put forthc1390
showa1398
apply?c1400
to put outc1400
exercisec1405
to put toc1410
employ?1473
enforce1490
exerce1535
adhibit?1538
addict1562
endeavour?1575
work1591
address1598
to give stream to?1611
to lay out1651
exsert1665
exert1682
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 272 Atrides! giue not streame To all thy powre, nor force his prise; but yeeld her still his owne, As all men else do.
d. stream of thought = stream of consciousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > stream of consciousness > [noun]
thought-stream1839
stream of consciousness1855
stream of thought1890
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of ideas > association of ideas > [noun] > connected idea > train of association
stream of consciousness1855
stream of thought1890
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xix. 79 This consciousness must have the unity which every ‘section’ of our stream of thought retains so long as its objective content does not sensibly change.
1921 J. Varendonck Psychol. of Day-dreams iv. 293 Only such terminations of fore-conscious streams of thought as are in relation with acknowledged desires..of our conscious life can come to the surface.
1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 223 Of the other experiments that have been made [by the novelist] the most important is the use of the stream of thought... It was tempting to explore greater depths of character by an imaginative picture of the subconscious of the persons of his invention.
1961 John o' London's 2 Feb. 109/3 The author includes many..remarks..on the Ulysses characters, providing fascinating insights into what Joyce was getting at with his stream-of-thought vignettes.
e. Education. A division in a school according to ability or to subjects studied; a group of pupils selected in this way.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > stream or set
set1882
stream1938
track1959
1938 Rep. Consultative Comm. Secondary Educ. (H.M.S.O.) p. xix We use the term ‘multilateral’ to describe a school which by means of separate streams would provide for all types of secondary education with the exception of that provided by Junior Technical Schools.
1946 M. L. Jacks Total Educ. iv. 59 The Headmaster of a Senior School tells me that his main difficulty lies not with the A stream nor with the C stream,..but with that solid mass in the middle.
1953 Manch. Guardian 11 May 6/10 On entry at eleven, each child is given intelligence tests and group tests in arithmetic and English, and on the result is placed in the appropriate stream (both the Douglas schools have a six-stream, Ramsey a four, and Castle Rushen a three-stream entry).
1959 Observer 20 Dec. 22/2 Perhaps we can totter along somehow, and for a time, by prolonging the ‘stream’ system into university education.
1966 J. Partridge Middle School iii. 41 It is clearly recognized that the ‘A’ stream contains the most intelligent boys and the ‘D’ stream the least.
1977 J. Aiken Last Movement i. 31 I never actually taught her..because she was in the science stream and I was tutoring in business methods.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [noun] > tail
streamc1368
crest1387
train1559
beard1563
tail1572
streamer1621
antitail1957
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > starlight > ray of
streamc1368
flamec1374
starbeama1400
c1368 G. Chaucer Compl. Pite 94 Let som streem of your light on me be sene.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §13. 7 A Square plate perced with a certein holes..to resseyuen the stremes of the sonne by day.
c1402 J. Lydgate Compl. Black Knight 592 His brighte bemes and his stremes al Were in the wawes of the water fal.
1473 J. Warkworth Chron. 16 The Erle of Oxenfordes men hade uppon them ther lordes lyuery,..whiche was a sterre withe stremys.
c1530 Court of Love 849 Now am I caught..With persant stremes of your yën clere.
a1550 in R. Dyboski Songs, Carols & Other Misc. Poems (1908) 7 The streme shon over Bedlem bryght.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 90 A maruellous gret Comet, quhilk toward the South schot fyrie stremes terrabillie.
1680 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 60 The late comett was seen in other parts,..the starr was but small, yet the stream near 40 degrees in length.
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 60 In the year 1666 in the month of February, there appeared in this Countrey another Comet or stream in the West.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 291 This night I saw another Comet neere Cancer, very bright, but the streame not so long.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag
streamer1292
streamc1440
pendant1466
guidon1548
wimple1656
pennant1698
pinnet1727
scroll1808
fan-
c1440 Ipomydon 1938 With shippis and sayles manyfolde, There stremes were of fyne golde.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xi. 46 b [We] put out all the flags, banners, streames, & gailliadets of our gallies.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 643 The violet and purple colour of the amethyst betokened their shipping, sailes and streames.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 18 Out goeth his flag and pendance or streames, also his Colours.
Compounds
C1. Simple attributive, as stream-bank, stream-bed, stream-gravel, stream-ground, stream-head, stream-name, stream-side, stream-water.
ΚΠ
c1619 S. Atkinson Discov. Gold Mynes Scotl. (1825) 15 To frame or make a long sowgh, or scowring place, into which they bringe the streame water.
c1630 J. Milton Let. in Birch Wks. (1738) I. Life p. v And here I am come to a streame-head, copious enough to disburden itselfe like Nilus at seven Mouthes into an Ocean.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 134 The additional trouble of removing back the soil in heaps, and levelling the Stream ground to receive it, is so little.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 169 The sandy streambank and the woodgreen plain.
1844 E. B. Barrett Romance of Swan's Nest in Poems II. 254 Little Ellie sits alone..By a stream-side, on the grass.
1857 M. Arnold Rugby Chapel 95 The stream-bed descends In the place where the wayfarer once Planted his footstep.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 410 That day he needs must leave the stream~side road.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 152 A coarse low fern on stream-gravel.
1901 Q. Rev. July 22 The country [Uganda] is almost like a succession of gigantic furrows, and in nearly every furrow there is a ‘sponge’, swamp, or stream-head.
1922 E. Ekwall Place-names Lancs. 25 It might be an old stream-name..and might have given name to the forest.
1960 P. H. Reaney Orig. Eng. Place-names v. 81 It is also possible that this (and other names) may contain a stream-name ec(c)les, as in Ecchinswell.
C2. objective, parasynthetic, etc., as stream-bordering, stream-cut, stream-embroidered, stream-illumed, stream-like adjs. Also stream-cutting vbl. n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > cutting channel or hole
stream-cutting1626
gorging1833
outscour1883
incision1906
gullying1928
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [adjective] > cutting channel or hole
stream-cut1626
mining1816
incised1898
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis x. 198 Streame-bordering Willow.
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation Solil. ii, in Wks. (1880) II. 175/1 The green-breasted, stream-embroydred Plaines.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iii. 78 Dim twilight-lawns, and stream-illumined caves.
1820 W. Wordsworth Misc. Sonn. iii. ii. 13 The stream-like windings of that glorious street.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 47 Since there is little or no stream-cutting below such lakelets, they may persist longer than do the lakes dammed by the main mass of the slide.
1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms ix. 314 Pediments form not at the bases of fault-scarps but beneath the retreating walls of stream-cut valleys.
1973 Nature 2 Mar. 40/1 In a streamcut channel, the Ganurgarh shales intercalated with limestone have been exposed.
C3. † stream-net n. Obsolete a net for fishing in running water.† stream-toll n. Obsolete a toll paid for the use of a stream.
stream-anchor n. an anchor intermediate in size between the bower and the kedge, used to moor a ship in a sheltered position, and for warping.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > anchor intermediate between bower and kedge
stream-anchor1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 29 There is also a streame Anchor not much bigger [than a kedger], to stemme an easie stream or tide.
1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. v. iv. 67 We carried out a stream anchor, to enable us to haul the ship abreast of the town, in case of an attack.
1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 192 A stream anchor..is used for warping on, in a tideway or calm.
stream-cable n. the cable or hawser of the stream-anchor.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable > belonging to specific anchor
sheet-cable1611
stream-cable1618
long service1662
bower-cable1748
sheet-shot1750
1618 in J. Charnock Hist. Mar. Archit. (1801) II. 227 Till of late none but the great shipps weare allowed stream cables.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 103 Streame-Cabell is a small cabell, which we ride withall in streames, as rivers, or in faire~weather, when we stop-a-tide.
1805 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 195 (note) At daylight got the end of the stream-cable on board the prize, and made sail with her in tow.
stream-current n. (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun]
currentc1380
veina1500
ford1563
tide1585
vein1600
draught1601
currency1758
stream-currenta1830
palaeocurrent1955
a1830 J. Rennell Investig. Currents Atlantic Ocean (1832) 21 (note) I distinguish two kinds of currents. The one drift or drift current, is the mere effect of a constant or very prevalent wind on the surface-water... The other..is the stream current, formed of the accumulated waters of the drift current.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 19/1 A current thus directly impelled by wind is termed a ‘drift-current’, whilst a current whose onward movement is sustained by the vis a tergo of a drift-current is called a ‘stream-current’.
stream-flow n. originally U.S. flow of water in streams and rivers; the rate or amount of this in any one stream or from any particular area.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > flow
stream14..
stream-flow1902
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > flow > rate
stream-flow1902
1902 W. P. Mason Water-supply (ed. 3) vi. 269 The forest acts as a ‘governor’ of stream flow, rather than as a means of increasing precipitation.
1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics I. 498/2 It has been possible..to deduce the total run-off or stream flow from a drainage area from the difference of rainfall and the computed evaporation over that area.
1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 142/3 The cooling water required by power plants already constitutes 10 percent of the total U.S. streamflow.
1979 Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 60 560 (heading) A method for assessment of effects on streamflow by orographic cloud seeding in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
stream function n. Physics a mathematical function of position defined so that lines along which it has a constant value are the streamlines of a flow or the lines of force of a field.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > path of particle when motion is steady > specific function
stream function1879
1879 H. Lamb Treat. Math. Theory Motion Fluids iv. 67 If P move about in such a manner that the value of ψ does not alter, it will trace out a curve such that no fluid anywhere crosses it, i.e. a stream-line. Hence the curves ψ = const. are the stream-lines, and ψ is called the ‘stream-function’.
1937 S. L. Green Hydro- & Aero-dynamics ii. 19 When w = ϕ + iψ is a function of z = x + iy the conditions ϕx = ψy, ϕy = −ψx are satisfied, and these conditions are exactly the same as those satisfied by the velocity potential and the stream function for an irrotational motion in two dimensions.
1979 Bertin & Smith Aerodynamics for Engineers ii. 44 The existence of a stream function is a necessary condition for a physically possible flow.
stream-gold n. gold in alluvial deposits.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native gold
gold dust1607
virgin gold1673
sand gold1766
vein gold1834
rhodium gold1844
free gold1854
shot gold1858
flour-gold1869
stream-gold1875
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 298 The gold of alluvial districts, called stream-gold or placer-gold.
stream-ice n. pieces of drift ice joining each other in a continuous ridge and following the line of current.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > ice-field or pack-ice
ice field1694
field1695
ice-island1750
field ice1772
ice isle1777
pack1791
stream1817
ice pack1835
pedregal1839
pack ice1842
stream-ice1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vi. 54 We stood on, boring the loose stream-ice.
stream-jam n. Logging (see quot. 1905).
ΚΠ
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 33 Center jam, a jam formed on an obstacle in the middle of a stream, and which does not reach either shore; stream jam.
stream-lake n. (see quot. 1867).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types
pene-lake1668
salina1697
slough1714
salt lake1763
bayou1766
lagoon1769
cut-off1773
prairie1820
maar1826
boating lake1834
serpentine1837
soda lake1839
bitter lake1843
stream-lake1867
shott1878
crater-lake1879
playa1885
oxbow lake1887
kettle-hole lake1902
mortlake1902
oxbow1902
seepage lake1934
paternoster lake1942
soda pan1976
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stream-lake, one which communicates with the sea by means of a river.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets
Peter netc1280
flue1388
wade1388
stalker1389
shove-net1418
trod-net1523
butt1533
web1533
fagnet1558
seur1558
trimnet1558
trollnet1558
pot-net1584
treat net1584
weir-net1585
hagan1630
henbilt1630
rugnet1630
basket-net1652
landing-net1653
stream-net1662
wolf1725
ram's horn1792
gill net1795
wolf-net1819
trap-net1856
forewheel1861
stow-net1871
lave net1875
kettle-bail1881
beating-net1883
keeve-net1883
net basin1883
wing-neta1884
trap-seine1891
lead-net1910
ghost net1959
1662 Act 14 Chas. II c. 28 §1 With any Drift Net Trammel or Stream Net.
stream-ore n. ore in alluvial deposits.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > alluvial ore
stream-ore1850
1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. 365 Among the minerals of importance obtained from Tertiary deposits, we may mention the stream-ores of gold, platinum, and other rare metals found with these.
stream-sail n. short for stream-line sail n. at streamline n. Compounds.
ΚΠ
1920 Glasgow Herald 16 July 7 The three hours' trial of the streamsail on the eve of the great race.
stream-tide n. a spring tide.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > spring
springa1398
spring-floodc1405
spring tide1548
high tide1609
sea-spring1627
overloup1710
stream-tide1789
overleap1795
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom II. 198 A stream-tide and a strong fresh meeting one another, would throw some of this sediment pretty high.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1860) xiii. 136 The common oyster..is sometimes found in the Gairloch..in beds laid bare by the ebb of stream-tides.
stream-tin n. tin ore found in pebble-like lumps in alluvial beds.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > tin ore
tin-stone1602
crop1778
row1778
stream-tin1778
tin-stuff1778
wood-tin1787
stannolite1843
toad's eye tin1850
cassiterite1858
tin wash1898
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > rutile and uranite groups A02 > cassiterite
tin-stone1602
stream-tin1778
wood-tin1787
stannolite1843
toad's eye tin1850
cassiterite1858
varlamoffite1948
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 65 It is more profitably used for melting of Stream Tin.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 859 This variety, called ‘stream tin’, produces the highest price in the market.
stream-tinner n. one who works this ore.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner > specific
spadiard1610
bounder1702
stream-tinner1839
tin-streamer1839
tin-bounder1865
1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xiii. 403 Confused mass of mud, sand, clay, and stones, which has been much disturbed by the stream-tinners.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for use of other facilities
stream-toll1327
cranage1390
ward-fee1789
streetage1857
slidage1884
peg-rent1911
1327 ( Charter Roll, 1 Edward III (P.R.O.: C 53/114) m. 1 Cum stramtol & watertol & hamsochne.
stream-tube n. (see quot. 1892 and streamline n.).
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > path of particle when motion is steady > specific surface formed by
stream-tube1892
1892 Minchin Hydrostatics etc. 371 If at any point, A,..we describe a very small closed curve and at each point on the contour of this curve we draw the stream line, such as AP, and produce it indefinitely, we obtain a stream tube.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 940/1 The surface formed by all the stream lines passing through a small closed contour is termed a ‘stream tube’.
stream-way n. (a) the main current of a river; (b) the shallow bed of a stream, a watercourse.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > bed of
rakeeOE
channela1387
cannela1400
watercourse1566
alveus1686
waterstead1775
fiumara1820
stream-way1822
wash1894
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > main part
stream1398
strength1544
mainstream?1585
stream-way1822
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. ii. 34 They got into the stream-way accordingly, and, although heavily laden, began to move down the river with reasonable speed.
1904 Surrey Comet 17 Sept. 6/7 There would be barges moored alongside the wharf, and there would be a demand for a mooring in the streamway.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. 324 Near at hand I came upon the little stream-way.
stream-wheel n. (see quot. 1875).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water
waterwheel1408
flood-wheel1515
breast wheel1744
overshot1760
undershot wheel1760
breast-shot1775
bucket-wheel1797
tub-wheel1815
flutter-wheel1817
danaide1825
wheel1842
reaction waterwheel1847
reaction wheel1852
tide-wheel1864
hurdy-gurdy1868
stream-wheel1875
paddle wheela1884
Pelton1885
turbine-pump1900
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stream-wheel, an undershot or current wheel.
stream-work n. (also stream-works) the operation of washing detrital deposits for metal, esp. tin; a place where this is done.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > washing or streaming
washing1578
stream-work1586
streaming1778
surfacing1852
society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation
stream-work1586
opencast?a1650
lavatory1712
lavadero1717
coffin1778
whole working1842
open cut1848
dry- or wet-diggings1849
river diggings1850
placer digging1851
placer working1867
drift mine1882
strip mine1934
1586 W. Camden Brit. 69 Horum autem stannariorum, siue metallicorum operum duo sunt genera. Alterum Lode-works, alterum Streame-works, vocant.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 8 Which [scattered ore] being sought and digged, is called Streamworke.
1823 W. Buckland Reliq. Diluvianæ 219 The gold mine that was worked a few years since in the county of Wicklow was simply a stream-work, in which the gold was dispersed in the form of small pebbles and sand, through a bed of gravel.
1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. ii. 48 Some stream-works of the Bronze Age are known to have been carried out in localities.
Draft additions 1993
e. Computing. A continuous flow of data or instructions, esp. one having a constant or predictable rate. Also, a channel for such data.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > data flow
stream1965
1948 N. Wiener Cybernetics 10 To accomplish reasonable results in a reasonable time, it..became necessary to push the speed of the elementary processes to the maximum, and to avoid interrupting the stream of those processes by steps of an essentially slower nature.]
1965 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 27 i. 237/1 It should not be necessary for a user to decide at the time he writes a program what actual sources and destinations are to be associated with his program input/output streams.
1972 Computer Jrnl. 15 195/2 It is also possible to have streams of strings, or of vectors, or of any other data type.
1986 E. L. Scace in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications iii. 92 Users may choose any application for this bit stream.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
streamv.
/striːm/, U.S. /strim/ I. Intransitive senses.
1. figurative.1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 341/1 Let euery one of vs know..that vnlesse hee were stayed vp from an high by the vertue of the holie Ghost, he should finde him selfe to streame away as the water doth.
a. Of a body of liquid: To flow or issue in a stream; to flow or run in a full and continuous current. Also with adverbs, as away, down, out, forth.Formerly sometimes of a river (merely = flow v.).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > abound [verb (intransitive)] > flow or fall abundantly
overflowOE
rainc1175
streama1250
overfleeta1325
fleetc1374
gush?a1400
pour1538
troll1576
to rain in1596
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously > in (a) stream(s)
yetOE
strikea1225
streama1250
lavec1425
welterc1480
souse1591
spew1670
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 59 Blodi strundes streamden. & leafden his swete bodi.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 560 Quhill throu the byrneis brist the blud, That till the erd doune stremand ȝud.
1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Bvi So sore they dyd thurst them on thy heed, yt the blode dyd streme downe by thy blessed chekes.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth ii. f. 6 The eight [river is] Ocka, that..streameth into Volgha.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §247 259 The river Ock streameth by Stow.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 467 A Rib, with cordial spirits warme, And Life-blood streaming fresh. View more context for this quotation
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. vii. 44 The clouds broke on the surrounding mountains, and the torrents streamed into the plain on every side.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 72 She suffered the tears to stream down her cheeks unconcealed.
b. of a glacier.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [verb (intransitive)] > flow in a stream
stream1860
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 98 Not a trace of vegetation could be seen along the whole range of the bounding mountains: glaciers streamed from their shoulders into the valley beneath.
c. of a road, or of land which seems to move in the opposite direction to one who passes along it.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > appear to move past (of land, a road)
stream1832
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > copiously or continuously > of road or land
stream1832
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women i, in Poems (new ed.) 122 As when a man, that sails in a balloon, Downlooking sees the solid shining ground Stream from beneath him.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Voyage 50 O hundred shores of happy climes, How swiftly stream'd ye by the bark!
1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 1 Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. Of light, air, vapour, immaterial effluences, etc.: To be carried or emitted in a full and continuous current.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > copiously or continuously
flowc825
outfloweOE
outstreama1275
streama1300
boilc1300
welta1400
buschc1400
waltc1400
outwellc1443
pour1538
outgush1558
gush1577
outpour1581
spew1670
well1812
sluice1859
a1300 E.E. Psalter lxi. 11 Welthes if þai stremen smert [L. si affluant], Nil þou set on þam þi hert.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2468 Part of sapience Stremyd in-to his hert, for his eloquence.
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 59 Vntill the fountaine of loue, streaming from their eyes, gaue libertye vnto restrained speeche.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 77 And to imperiall loue, that God most high Do my sighes streame . View more context for this quotation
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. B4v They are all porous, and the ætherial Matter is continually streaming through them.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. i. 9 Observing the rays of the lamp stream through a small opening.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 244 The morning sun was streaming in at the window.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 97 The clouds..streamed out from their shelter into the current of the gale.
1875 W. C. Russell John Holdsworth xx Amid the clanking of spoons in glasses,..the conversation streamed into milder channels.
1897 S. Crane Third Violet i. 4 Dust streamed out behind the vehicle.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 81 In a short time neuralgic pangs stream along the limbs.
b. Of a star or meteor: To form a continuous trail of light as it moves in its course. (Cf. 6.)
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > [verb (intransitive)] > form light
stream1838
1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 6 Over him [the scholar] stream the flying constellations.
1884 R. S. Ball in Nature 4 Sept. 455/1 I looked up just in time to see a superb shooting star stream across the heavens.
3. indirect passive.1907 E. Gosse Father & Son 157 Dark rocks..streamed over by silken flags of royal crimson and purple.
a. Of a flag, or the like: To wave or float outwards in the wind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > wave in the wind
rotec1330
waive1338
waverc1440
wafterc1450
wave1487
to waver with or in the windc1503
streama1560
flaunt1576
wift1609
fly1659
waff1834
flare1837
a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ddiij Thou sawest..how his helmet crest did streaming stare?
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 537 Th' Imperial Ensign..Shon like a Meteor streaming to the Wind. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 590 Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd..Streame in the Aire. View more context for this quotation
1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xx. 346 His own man, pale with terror, his hair streaming in the wind, came rushing..through the wood.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxxii. 246 Flags stream, and drums beat.
b. Of hair, a garment, etc.: To hang loose and waving; to lie in undulating curves; to trail out, behind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > streamingly
flow1606
stream1785
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 541 Her head, adorn'd with lappets pinn'd aloft, And ribbands streaming gay.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 157 His flaming robes stream'd out beyond his heels.
1822 W. Tennant Thane of Fife v. xlv Stream'd from her cinctur'd waist her long cymar behind.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 155 His loose grey hair streamed over his shoulders.
c. indirect passive, with upon: To be ornamented with (a profusion of jewels).
ΚΠ
1837 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 225 A white tissue floating about her like clouds, looped up and streamed upon with jewels.
4.
a. Of persons (or animals): To move together continuously in considerable numbers; to flock. Often with adverb, as out, in, down, up, away.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass in continuous stream
passc1330
flowa1382
fleet1596
stream1735
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > come or go in great numbers
flocka1400
to have concourse1555
concur1577
thwacka1652
stream1735
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Stream, to walk, move, or go along soberly or gently with the Current, &c. also to loiter about idly.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xiii. 210 People..streamed to it from all quarters.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 72 Recruits stream up on him.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 464 We began to observe too flocks of the little Auk streaming south.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 343 The sea-birds sang as they streamed out into the ocean.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xix. 323 Horse and foot were streaming along the roads.
b. spec. of the hounds going after the fox in open country.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > other actions of hounds
to be at bayc1515
blemish1575
to give the hare a turn1575
wrench1686
lurch1824
meuse1827
stream1849
smeuse1851
water1855
to run into shot1884
1849 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour ix, in New Monthly Mag. Apr. 403 From the summit..they see the hounds streaming away to a fine grass country below.
1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 146 A fine big fox away, with the pack streaming after him.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 583/1 (Hunting, fox) Streaming, going across open country, spread out.
c. Without the notion of large numbers: To go with a rush. rare.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently
driveeOE
fallOE
reseOE
routOE
rashOE
swip?c1225
weothec1275
startlec1300
lushc1330
swapc1386
brusha1400
spurna1400
buschc1400
frushc1400
rushc1405
rushle1553
rouse1582
hurl1609
powder1632
slash1689
stave1819
tilt1831
bulge1834
smash1835
storm1837
stream1847
ripsnort1932
slam1973
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xv. 130 It was scarcely out of his mouth, when Mrs. Firkin and Miss Briggs had streamed up the stairs, had rushed into the drawing-room [etc.].
5. To pour off or exude liquid in a continuous stream; to run, drip, overflow with moisture. Of the eyes: To overflow with (tears); also with over. Of the body: To run with, †on (blood or sweat).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)] > emit
streamc1390
spout?a1425
pour1539
pump1836
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > emit copiously or in a stream
runc1225
streamc1390
spout?a1425
diffude?a1475
pour1539
pump1836
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > lachrymal organs > flow [verb (transitive)]
to well upa1413
well1600
stream1791
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > lachrymal organs > flow [verb (intransitive)]
tricklec1386
stress?a1400
silec1540
deraina1561
stream1812
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 247 Hys eyen two, for pite of his herte, Out stremeden as swyfte welles tweye.]
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 560 He seiȝ a child strauȝt þer-on stremynge on blode.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Treat. Orange Trees vii. 15 in Compl. Gard'ner Whilst the Clod is thus streaming, should one put it into a new Earth'd Case, it would make it all into a Mortar.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 90 The smoking Litter..seek the pouting Teat, That plenteous streams.
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VIII. 426 Every part of the city streamed with blood.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 12 With supplicating eyes, that streamed with tears.
1812 Ld. Byron Adieu, Adieu! viii, in Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. 13 Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eyes We late saw streaming o'er.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlviii. 216 Still Lord George, streaming from every pore, went on with Gashford.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxx. 98 Blasts that..lash with storm the streaming pane. View more context for this quotation
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 15 The day was hot and he was streaming with perspiration.
1878 G. Meredith Love in Valley xii Streaming like a willow grey in arrowy rain.
6.
a. Of a luminous body: To emit a continuous stream of beams or rays of light. Also spec. of a comet, with reference to its ‘tail’: To issue in a widening stream of light.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)]
streama1400
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5286 With stoute starand stanes þat stremed as þe son.
c1420 J. Lydgate Ballad Commend. Our Lady 68 Lauriat coroun, stremand as a sterre.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 63 Her eyes in heauen, Would through the airie region streame so bright, That birdes would sing, and thinke it were not night. View more context for this quotation
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 277 About their backes there are many little shining spots like eyes..streaming like starres.
1617 L. Digges tr. Claudian Rape Proserpine i. D 3 b A Comet..streaming o're the world with bloudy light.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Farewell 13 A thousand suns will stream on thee.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 68 The Comet's tail streams and widens upward.
b. With a blending of sense 5: To be suffused with (radiant light).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > illumination > be or become illuminated [verb (intransitive)] > by rays of light
stream1830
irradiate1860
1830 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily (ed. 2) I. iv. 119 As he ascended in the sky the mountain tops began to stream with golden light.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 223 A gorge that was streaming at noonday with the southern sun.
II. Transitive senses.† 9. To ornament with flowing lines or rays. Obsolete.
7. 1607 S. Hieron Old-man & New-man in Wks. (1620) I. 420 The best which he [sc. man] hath in him is corrupt: he is streamed out of an infected fountain.1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 641 Royall power, streaming glorie and princely dignitie.
a. To cause to flow; to pour forth, discharge, or emit in a stream (a liquid, rays of light, etc.). Also with adverb, as out, forth, down. Also †figurative.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > pour abundantly
rineeOE
pourc1330
streama1425
gush1530
troll1573
flood1829
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously > in or as in a stream
runeOE
ayetOE
yetOE
hieldc1200
pourc1330
bleed1377
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wella1398
outyeta1400
wellc1400
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outwell1590
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guttera1618
effude1634
disembogue1641
profund1657
efflux1669
decant1742
profuse1771
sluice1859
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (transitive)]
reflecta1456
streekc1480
shoot1596
stream1880
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Prov. v. 16 Thi wellis be stremed forth [L. deriventur fontes tui foras].
1493 Dives & Pauper (1496) i. ii. 33/2 His hondes were nayled to the crosse and stremed out blood.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bij The true Sonne of rightwisenesse..hath so abundantly streamed into our hartes, the direct beames of his goodnes, mercy, and grace.
1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 26 It may so please, that she at length will streame Some deaw of grace into my withered hart.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. xx. 23 That light'ning ray Which her sweete beautie streamed on his face.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 202 Had I as many eyes, as thou hast wounds, Weeping as fast as they streame forth thy blood. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 115 S. Peter..streamed downe upon the Church such abundance of sincere milk, as himselfe styleth it.
1789 R. Polwhele Eng. Orator iv. 380 She [Religion] sits..Streaming cherubic Effluence o'er her Heaven Of spotless Azure.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. iv. 81 He took a large purse from his bosom..and streamed a shower of small silver pieces into the goblet.
1868 Model Stream Eng. 19 If now cold water from a sponge be streamed over the bottom of the flask, boiling will recommence.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 143 The moon streamed its floods of light over the forest.
1891 ‘M. O'Rell’ Frenchman in Amer. 268 The firemen streaming floods of water over the roof and through the windows.
b. Of a river, a fountain: To have its stream composed of (an alien liquid); to run with (blood, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (transitive)] > flow with
stream1613
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. i. 454 A golden world, where meale was as plentifull as dust, and fountaines streamed milke, hony, wine, and oyle.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 209 The riuer of Adonis, which is said by Lucan [(ed. 3) correctly Lucian] to haue streamed bloud.
c. to stream out: to exhaust by unrestricted flow. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste
spilla1000
scatter1154
aspilla1250
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waste1340
spend1390
consumec1425
waste1474
miswenda1500
forsumea1510
to cast away1530
to throw away1561
embezzle1578
squander1593
palter1595
profuse1611
squander1611
ravel1614
sport1622
to fool away1628
to stream out1628
to fribble away1633
sweal1655
frisk1665
to fiddle away1667
wantonize1673
slattera1681
swattle1681
drivel1686
swatter1690
to muddle away1707
squander1717
sot1746
slattern1747
meisle1808
fritter1820
waster1821
slobber1837
to cut to waste1863
fringe1863
potter1883
putter1911
profligate1938
to piddle away1942
haemorrhage1978
spaff2002
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > use up completely or exhaust
stanch1338
exhaust1541
soak1577
tire1589
to suck dry1592
to run away with1622
exantlate1660
to spin out1718
rack1778
overteem1818
deplete1850
to stream out1894
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xv. sig. K6 Themistocles, that streamed out his youth, in Wine, and Venery.
1894 E. A. Minchin tr. Bütschli Investig. Microsc. Foams 79 To find out whether..one can produce new streamings in drops which have streamed themselves out.
8. To suffuse or overspread (a surface) with flowing moisture. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > cover or suffuse > with flowing liquid
stream1526
perfusea1530
waterfall1957
1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Bviiv With..pale visage, all stremed with blode.
1806 G. Pinckard Notes W. Indies III. 207 From using only moderate exercise, I am so streamed with perspiration as to make it necessary to change my clothes four or five times in the course of the day.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 17 While his being is Streamed with the set of the world's harmonies.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > stripes, bars, or lines
barc1400
streamc1430
fillet1629
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 8 Stremyd with sonnes were alle her garmentis.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Irrigare, to streame any thing by lines.
a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1658) 23 The Heralds Mantle is streamed with Gold.
10. To cause (a flag) to float outwards in the wind; to wave (a handkerchief).
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > cause to wave in the wind
flask1565
stream1597
wave1602
fan1638
flare1838
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 85 Streaming the ensigne of the Christian Crosse, Against blacke Pagans, Turkes, and Saracens. View more context for this quotation
1787 R. Polwhele Eng. Orator ii. 654 Some Bark Streaming the well-known Pendant.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. iv. 96 As they streamed towards him their kerchiefs, in token of encouragement.
11. Nautical. to stream the buoy: to throw the anchor-buoy overboard before casting anchor.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor > anchor in specific manner
stern the buoy1711
to stream the buoy1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Buoy-rope To stream the buoy, is to let it fall from the ship's side into the water..that it may not be retarded by the buoy-rope as it sinks.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 23 After the topsails had been sheeted home,..and the buoys streamed, and all ready forward for slipping.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 162 Stream the buoy, and heave the anchor over.
12. Mining. To flush (a detrital deposit) with a stream of water, in order to carry off the earthy matter, and leave the ore exposed. Usually absol. to stream for (tin, copper, etc.).
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream
wash1543
strip1674
stream1778
van1839
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 132 Nothing else remains than to describe the manner of Streaming.
1787 Groschke tr. Klaproth Observ. Fossils Cornwall 11 The manner of streaming or collecting the tin rubbles..is briefly the following.
1796 Trans. Soc. Arts 14 166 On streaming or searching for tin,..another stratum was discovered.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iii. 103 Past the ugly dykes and muddy leats, where Alef's slaves were streaming the gravel for tin ore.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 425/2 Copper, which lies deeper in the earth, and consequently cannot be ‘streamed’ for.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 61 Hardly a gully has not been streamed, every river-bed has been turned over.
1907 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 456 For the purpose of streaming for wolfram, or tungsten.
13. Dyeing. To wash (silk fabric) in running water, before putting in the dye.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > other processes
starch1390
scour1467
burl1483
waterc1500
calender1513
shoot1532
press1555
gum1612
reimbale1623
strike1701
bias1838
pad1839
spirit1854
bray1879
stream1883
crisp1892
block1905
Schreiner1905
mercerize1911
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 40/2 After which it [the woven silk] is removed to be streamed in running water, and beaten, till thoroughly clean and ready for dyeing.
14. Education. In a school, to divide (pupils) into streams (stream n. 6e); to place (a pupil) in a stream.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [verb (transitive)] > stream or unstream
stream1957
unstream1961
set1962
1957 Listener 12 Dec. 997/1 The Russians..neither stream nor select their children... All are expected to reach a common standard.
1966 J. Partridge Middle School iii. 41 The boys are thus streamed according to recognized ability.
1973 People's Jrnl. 4 Aug. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 9/2 I suppose they had their problems trying to get me ‘streamed’.
1980 Times 7 May 15/3 I got myself streamed at Manchester Grammar towards the sciences.
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Computing. To transfer (video and audio material) over a network (now esp. the internet) or (less commonly) from a disk as a continuous, real-time stream of data. Cf. streaming n. Additions g, streaming adj. Additions b.
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1981 Computerworld 10 Aug. 44/2 The package was designed as a stand-alone program to stream Rdos-compatible disks to formatted 100 in./sec streaming tape drives.
1996 Internet World. July 48/2 Multimedia applications such as streaming real-time audio and video.
2004 Internet Mag. New Year 35/2 Stream movies straight off the Net and directly into your TV.
2010 Independent 4 Nov. (Viewspaper section) 11/1 Getting an iPad to control iTunes on a laptop, which then streamed the music wirelessly to a phone.
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