on stream
stream
verb
uk /striːm/ us /striːm/

streamverb (FLOW)

[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]
to flow somewhere or produce liquid, quickly and in large amounts without stopping: 流，流动;流出，涌出
tears stream down someone’s faceThere were tears streaming down his face.泪水顺着他的脸滑落。
blood streams fromOne woman was carried from the scene of the accident with blood streaming from her head.一名头部流血的妇女被从事故现场抬走了。
UKI've got a terrible cold and my nose has been streaming all week.我得了重感冒，整个星期都在流鼻涕。
 stream in, out, through, etc.
to move continuously in one direction: 流入／出／经（等等）
stream out ofWe were all very excited as we streamed out of our final exam.期终考试结束后，我们涌出考场时都非常兴奋。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drool
funnel
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
staunch
stem
swash
swill
swirl

streamverb (INTERNET)

[ T ]
to send or receive sound or video directly over the internet as a continuous flow: 在线收听（或收看）
On YouTube, millions of videos are streamed every day.
To pick up this signal, you will need a high-speed internet connection to stream it to your computer.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Operating computers
admin
administrator
aliasing
always-on
back someone up
exit
left-click
live streamer
logout
loop
malicious
maximize
surf
tap
unmounted
untag
untagged
untechnical
untick
zip file

streamverb (STUDENTS)

[ T ]UK(UStrack)
to group and teach together school students with similar abilities who are approximately the same age: （把同龄学生依照学习能力）编排成班（或组）
In Britain, we start to stream the children in year 10.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Classifying and creating order
alphabetize
anti-hierarchical
arrange
arrangement
arranger
describe
macrocosm
miscatalogue
misclassification
misclassify
miscode
mislabel
pigeonhole
shake someone down
short-list
shortlist
sort
sort something out
unstratified
unstructured

stream | American Dictionary

stream
noun[ C ]
us/strim/

streamnoun[C] (SMALL RIVER)

a small river that flows on or below the surface of the ground:
Rivers are wider, deeper, and longer than streams.

streamnoun[C] (FLOW)

a continuous flow:
The faucet leaked in a steady stream.
An endless stream of traffic clogged the roads today.
stream
verb
us/strim/

streamverb (SEND)

[ T ]
to send continuous sound or moving images using computers:
Wi-fi networking allows you to stream music from a PC to the device.

streamverb (FLOW)

[ I ]
to move continuously:
Record numbers of applications were streaming into our offices.
Tears streamed down her cheeks.
Sunlight was streaming through the window.

stream | Business English

stream
noun
uk /striːm/us
[ C ] FINANCE
a regular flow of money:
Utilities have a steady stream of cash coming in from their customers.
Fees for advising on acquisitions represent a large part of big banks' income streams.
[ C,usually singular ]
a large number of things or people of a similar type that happen or are seen one after the other:
a/the stream of sthA bankruptcy filing would add to the stream of business failures that have plagued corporate America.
a steady/constant/continuous stream of sth/sbAt the moment, we're seeing a steady stream of people in trouble from refinancings.
 come on stream
PRODUCTION
to start to be used to produce or manufacture something:
New power plants need to come on stream by 2016-17.
stream
verb[ T ]
 IT, INTERNET, COMMUNICATIONSuk /striːm/us
to listen to or watch sound or video on a computer, mobile phone, etc. directly from the internet rather than downloading it and saving it first, or to send sound or video in this way:
stream video/music/filesYou can now use your home wi-fi wireless network to stream music from your PC.
Streaming channels to individual handsets takes up a lot of network capacity.
Although TV and other video can be streamed over 3G networks, it is not a broadcast technology.

Examples of stream

stream
The high nutritional quality of the detrital organic matter in our study stream may result from grazing by tadpoles which enhances nitrogen fluxes.
Thus, every well-typed program can be translated to an equivalent stream-processing program.
Thus, the speeds and phases of the two streams will diverge.
The four significant correlations came from four different species pairs and two different streams.
They found that the amplitude of the dust-acoustic soliton structures decreases significantly with an increase in the dust streaming velocity.
Eels were sampled in the main stream at both sites which were similar in flow rate, stream width and substratum.
The development was carried out for dataflow networks between simple stream domains for ease of presentation.
A topography with similar scales in both the downstream and the cross-stream directions is potentially more relevant to geophysical problems.
Note the velocity larger than free stream outside the slug region and the slow decay of disturbances both up- and downstream.
A timed stream is easily converted to a finer time scale by inserting a certain number of ticks before each element.
For streaming below a certain threshold we determined matched asymptotic expansions for the electric potential, ion number density and ion velocity.
The focus was on meteorology, magnetism, atmospheric science, and ionospheric physics, and investigating the global implications of the newly discovered 'jet stream'.
Higher match rates make future consumption streams more affordable and therefore tend to increase current consumption.
We will first tackle the problem of adapting single streams to different time scales.
We also see some advantages of stream calculus over the use of formal power series.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withstream

stream

These are words often used in combination with stream.

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constant stream
First, we want to be able to view any real number as a constantstream.
continual stream
We public servants have been subjected to a continual stream of satire.
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