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streaming /ˈstriːmɪŋ /adjective [attributive]1British (Of a cold) accompanied by copious running of the nose and eyes: she’s got a streaming cold...- The disease was described as like flu with blisters, on feet and mouth - which is close to what it's like for animals, a self-limiting disease like a streaming cold with sore feet.
- People don't like ill people; walk into a pub with a streaming cold and people quite rightly discriminate against you.
- In a sandwich bar at lunchtime, a male member of staff with a streaming cold made sandwiches for customers.
2 Computing Relating to or making use of a form of tape transport in which data may be transferred in bulk while the tape is in motion: a streaming tape drive...- Snapshots are stored on disk, which provides fast, direct access rather than the slower mechanical streaming access provided by tape.
- As a streaming technology, tape drives work best when data is coming to them at their rated speed.
- The current technology for such machines is the streaming tape drive.
2.1(Of data) transmitted in a continuous stream while earlier parts are being used.One blogger wrote how mad he was over the fact that the streaming video wasn't live, saying the clips were stale the moment they were up....- For the first time in history, international streaming channels now outnumber channels from the US.
- Many radio stations use the streaming capabilities of this format to transmit their programmes over the net.
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