stream
verb/striːm/
/striːm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stream | /striːm/ /striːm/ |
| he / she / it streams | /striːmz/ /striːmz/ |
| past simple streamed | /striːmd/ /striːmd/ |
| past participle streamed | /striːmd/ /striːmd/ |
| -ing form streaming | /ˈstriːmɪŋ/ /ˈstriːmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] (of liquid or gas) to move or pour out in a continuous flow; to produce a continuous flow of liquid or gas
- (+ adv./prep.) Tears streamed down his face.
- a streaming cold (= with a lot of liquid coming from the nose)
- Stay away—I've got a streaming cold.
- Sunlight streamed through the windows.
- stream with something Her head was streaming with blood.
- stream from something Blood was streaming from her head.
- Black smoke streamed from the exhaust.
- stream something The exhaust streamed black smoke.
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- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (of people or things) to move somewhere in large numbers, one after the other
- People streamed across the bridge.
- The refugees streamed north to the border.
- He stared out of the window at the cars streaming along the street.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to move freely, especially in the wind or water
- Her scarf streamed behind her.
- She was walking by the sea, her fair hair streaming.
- (especially British English) (North American English usually track)[transitive, usually passive] (in schools) to put school students into groups according to their ability
- be streamed (for something) Pupils are streamed for French and maths.
- [transitive] stream something (computing) to play video or sound on a computer by receiving it as a continuous stream, from the internet for example, rather than needing to wait until the whole of the material has been downloaded
- You can stream the song for a single listen.
- The programme was streamed on the Web 24 hours a day.
Word OriginOld English strēam (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stroom, German Strom, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek rhein ‘to flow’.
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