Definition: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Definition: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
Usage: the raft floated downstream on the current; he felt a stream of air; the hose ejected a stream of water
Main entry: stream, current, flow
Definition: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
Usage: two streams of development run through American history; stream of consciousness; the flow of thought; the current of history
Main entry: stream, watercourse
Definition: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
Definition: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
Usage: a stream of people emptied from the terminal; the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
Main entry: stream
Definition: exude profusely
Usage: She was streaming with sweat; His nose streamed blood
Main entry: swarm, teem, stream, pullulate, pour
Definition: move in large numbers
Usage: people were pouring out of the theater; beggars pullulated in the plaza
Definition: flow freely and abundantly
Usage: Tears streamed down her face
Main entry: stream
Definition: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
Usage: their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind
Main entry: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
Definition: rain heavily
Usage: Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!