Noun | 1. | stream - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth Synonyms: watercourse |
2. | stream - dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" | |
3. | stream - a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air" Synonyms: current | |
4. | stream - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression Synonyms: flow | |
5. | stream - something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors" Synonyms: flow | |
Verb | 1. | stream - to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind" |
2. | stream - exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood" | |
3. | stream - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" | |
4. | stream - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" | |
5. | stream - flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face" Synonyms: well out |
STREAM. A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1612. See River; Water Course.
1. | STREAM - ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987]. | ||
2. | (communications) | stream - An abstraction referring to any flow of data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or receiver, consumer). A stream usually flows through a channel of some kind, as opposed to packets which may be addressed and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients. Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a channel or a "connection" between the sender and receiver. | |
3. | (programming) | stream - In the C language's buffered input/ouput library functions, a stream is associated with a file or device which has been opened using fopen. Characters may be read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently by the library routines. | |
4. | (operating system) | stream - Confusingly, Sun have called their modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS". | |
5. | (operating system) | stream - In IBM's AIX operating system, a
stream is a full-duplex processing and data transfer path
between a driver in kernel space and a process in user space. [IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts, SC23-2206-03]. | |
6. | (communications) | stream - streaming. | |
7. | (programming) | stream - lazy list. |