stream
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- noun
- /striːm/
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- Many Pai bands took their names from the streams that furnished them with crop irrigation water.
- flowing stream
- stream bank
- rivers and streams
Heron on a hill descending to the stream, Moss on the stones.
- Heron on a hill descending to the stream, Moss on the stones.
- And they're all in the streams or at the edges of lakes or swamps.
- They see that, yes, they can make clean water in a stream that was polluted.
- Now, here comes the Earth that crosses the stream twice, right?
Examples
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The eastern Gulf Coastal Plain includes large streams flowing out of the southern Appalachian Highlands.
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But here comes a glacial stream coming down from the ice sheet.
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There's like a cute little stream through here.
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We'd hang out by streams, he take me down to the beach.
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Heron on a hill descending to the stream, Moss on the stones.
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Moreover, state law quite clearly requires fishways in streams to prevent obstructions like barrier culverts.
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The children played along the bank of the stream, skipping stones into the water.
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While hiking in the forest, we found a beautiful stream meandering through the trees.
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He decided to fish in the stream because he heard it was full of trout.
Synonyms
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A small natural stream of water that often flows into a river
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A small fast stream of water in the countryside
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A small stream of water that flows in fields or woods
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A tiny stream of water that flows across the ground
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A channel, natural or man-made, where water flows like a river
A small narrow stream of water like a tiny brook
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A continuous flow of information sent or processed by computers in real time
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A warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico past the US east coast toward Europe
- Literature
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A way of writing that shows a character's thoughts as they happen
- Specialized
A group of small rocks in space that cause meteor showers when Earth passes through them
A part of a river where the tide makes the water go in the other direction or rise and fall
A stream whose water level and flow change with sea tides, reaching far upstream
An orchid that grows along streams or ponds in western North America with leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flowers
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word stream comes from an old English word stream that meant 'a flowing river' or 'current'. So a stream is a small, narrow body of running water.