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  • 31To float with the stream — Stream Stream (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre[ a]m; akin to OFries. str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str[ o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. ry sis a flowing, rei^n to flow, Skr.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 32current — Synonyms and related words: AC, Brownian movement, DC, Zeitgeist, a la mode, absorption current, accepted, accessible, accidental, accompanying, accustomed, active current, actual, ado, advance, advised, affirmed, affluence, afflux, affluxion,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 33Stream — For other uses, see Stream (disambiguation). Rivulet redirects here. For the moth, see Rivulet (moth). Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria, Australia. A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on i …

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  • 34stream — A river, brook, or rivulet, anything in fact that is liquid and flows in a line or course. French v Carhart, I NY 96, 107. A steady current in a river or in the sea, especially the middle or most rapid part of a current or tide; as the gulf… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 35Current (stream) — The water in this stream forms varying currents as it makes its way downhill A current, in a river or stream, is the flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy. The current varies spatially as… …

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  • 36Stream X-Machine — The Stream X machine (SXM) is a model of computation introduced by Gilbert Laycock in his 1993 PhD thesis, The Theory and Practice of Specification Based Software Testing .Gilbert Laycock (1993) The Theory and Practice of Specification Based… …

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  • 37stream — 1 noun (C) 1 SMALL RIVER a natural flow of water that moves across the land and is narrower than a river: a mountain stream see also: downstream, upstream 2 CONTINUOUS SERIES a long and almost continuous series of events, people, objects, etc (+… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 38stream — /strim / (say streem) noun 1. a body of water flowing in a channel or bed, as a river, rivulet, or brook. 2. a steady current in water, as in a river or the ocean: to row against the stream. 3. any flow of water or other liquid or fluid: streams… …

  • 39stream — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, X ray, Zeitgeist, abound, abundance, actinic ray, actinism, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appear, arise, ascend,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 40stream — {{11}}stream (n.) O.E. stream a course of water, from P.Gmc. *straumaz (Cf. O.S. strom, O.N. straumr, Dan. strèm, Swed. ström, Norw. straum, O.Fris. stram, Du. stroom, O.H.G. stroum, Ger. Strom current, river ), from PIE root …

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