DICTOMETER

STREAMS

1. Synonyms:
   • Stream
   • Watercourse
   Definitions:
   • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Stream
   • Flow
   • Current
   Definitions:
   • dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
   Examples:
   • Two streams of development run through American history
   • Stream of consciousness
   • The flow of thought
   • The current of history
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Flow
   • Stream
   Definitions:
   • the act of flowing or streaming
   • continuous progression
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Stream
   • Flow
   Definitions:
   • something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
   Examples:
   • A stream of people emptied from the terminal
   • The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Current
   • Stream
   Definitions:
   • a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
   Examples:
   • The raft floated downstream on the current
   • He felt a stream of air
   • The hose ejected a stream of water
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Stream
   Definitions:
   • to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
   Examples:
   • Their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Stream
   Definitions:
   • exude profusely
   Examples:
   • She was streaming with sweat
   • His nose streamed blood
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Pour
   • Swarm
   • Stream
   • Teem
   • Pullulate
   Definitions:
   • move in large numbers
   Examples:
   • People were pouring out of the theater
   • Beggars pullulated in the plaza
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Pour
   • Pelt
   • Stream
   • Rain cats and dogs
   • Rain buckets
   Definitions:
   • rain heavily
   Examples:
   • Put on your rain coat
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Stream
   • Well out
   Definitions:
   • flow freely and abundantly
   Examples:
   • Tears streamed down her face