[W/K] :: streaming

  Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Streamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Streaming.]
     1. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a
        current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as,
        tears streamed from her eyes.
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              Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.
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     2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
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              A thousand suns will stream on thee.  --Tennyson.
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     3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
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     4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in
        the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
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  Streaming \Stream"ing\, a.
     Sending forth streams.
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  Streaming \Stream"ing\, n.
     1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of
        that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
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     2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for
        stream tin.
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     3. (Biol.) the rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; --
        called also protoplasmic streaming.
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  streaming
       adj 1: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming
              face"; "her streaming eyes"
       2: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through
          the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the
          concert hall" [syn: flowing]
       3: (of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook" [syn: flowing]
       n : the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell [syn: cyclosis]

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "streaming":
     affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward,
     bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing,
     bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat-and-doggish, confluent,
     coursing, dangling, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent,
     down-trending, downward, drifting, drippy, driving, drizzling,
     drizzly, drooping, drumming, easy, flapping, flowing, fluent,
     flushing, fluxional, fluxive, flying, gleaming, gleamy, glinting,
     glowing, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging,
     illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, lax, light as day,
     loose, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
     luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mazy, meandering,
     misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mounting, orient, passing, pelting,
     plunging, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, profluent,
     progressive, racing, radiant, rainy, reflowing, refluent,
     regressive, relaxed, retrogressive, rickety, rising, rotary,
     rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, rutilant, rutilous,
     serpentine, shaky, shining, shiny, showery, sideward, sinking,
     slack, sloppy, sluggish, soaring, starbright, starlike, starry,
     suffused, sunny, sunshiny, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending,
     upward, vortical
  
  

  streaming
       
           Playing sound or video in real time as
          it is downloaded over the Internet as opposed to storing it
          in a local file first.  A plug-in to a web browser such as
          Netscape Navigator decompresses and plays the data as it is
          transferred to your computer over the World-Wide Web.
          Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in
          downloading an entire file and then playing it with a helper
          application.  Streaming requires a fast connection and a
          computer powerful enough to execute the decompression
          algorithm in real time.
       
          (1996-11-06)