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STREAMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
Synonyms:
cyclosis; streaming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("streaming" is a kind of...):
organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data
Example:
streaming video recording
Classified under:
Similar:
unprocessed (not altered from an original or natural state)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts
Example:
her streaming eyes
Classified under:
Participle:
stream (exude profusely)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stream
Context examples:
He greeted us with a stately courtesy and seated himself at his desk, his red beard streaming down on the table.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From shoulder to wrist of the crossed arms, the coat-sleeve, blue flannel shirt and undershirt were ripped in rags, while the arms themselves were terribly slashed and streaming blood.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Or it may be the result of the cold gas streaming onto the galaxy being rapidly compressed and heated up, preventing it from cooling down into star-forming clouds in the galaxy's center.
(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The team used a modern version of a 150-year-old German photography technique called Schlieren imaging to show shock waves streaming from jets flying at supersonic speeds.
(Seeing Shock Waves, EARTH OBSERVATORY)
Invasive malignant epithelial neoplasm characterized by cells with scant cytoplasm and hyperchromatic nuclei, which may show molding and chromatin streaming around blood vessels (Azzopardi effect).
(Invasive Small Cell Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The setting sun cast a ruddy glare upon his burnished arms, and sent his long black shadow streaming behind him up the level clearing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But between inner vision and outward pleasantry he found time to watch the theatre crowd streaming by.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The solar wind of particles streaming off the sun helps drive flows and swirls in space as complicated as any terrestrial weather pattern.
(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)
Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises—the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was this one side of life which first presented itself to me, and so, as a boy, I used to picture the City as a gigantic stable with a huge huddle of coaches, which were for ever streaming off down the country roads.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
