Definition of Streaming

1. Noun. The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell.

Exact synonyms: Cyclosis
Generic synonyms: Organic Phenomenon

2. Adjective. Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts. "Her streaming eyes"
Participles: Stream

3. Adjective. (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data. "Streaming video recording"
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Similar to: Unprocessed

Definition of Streaming

1. a. Sending forth streams.

2. n. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

Definition of Streaming

1. Verb. (present participle of stream) ¹

2. Adjective. that streams ¹

3. Noun. (computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it. ¹

4. Noun. (UK education) Division of classes into academic streams. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Streaming

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Streaming

streambeds
streame
streamed
streamer
streamer fly
streamers
streamertail
streamertails
streames
streamflow
streamflows
streamful
streamier
streamiest
streaminess
streaming (current term)
streamingly
streamings
streamless
streamlet
streamlets
streamlike
streamline
streamline flow
streamlined
streamliner
streamliners
streamlines
streamlining
streams

Literary usage of Streaming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"They are: (a) Circulation, when the streaming takes place to and fro along the strands which join a more or less centrally placed mass of protoplasm, ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"(2) The direction and vigor of streaming are to a high degree dependent upon the ... (3) streaming has a characteristic effect upon the visual processes. ..."

3. The Monitor (1879)
"When, like autumn sunshine streaming Through deep orchards, dropping fruit, ... The morning sun was streaming through the narrow lattice of his chamber, ..."

4. The Law of Mines, Quarries and Minerals by Robert Forster MacSwinney (1884)
"Same principle probably applies as to " streaming for tin." Mode of dealing with damages where surface in settlement. Under these provisions a right of ..."

5. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"IF streaming blood my fatal letter stain, Imagine, ere you read, the writer slain; One hand the sword, and one the pen em- And in my lap the ready paper ..."

6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... spy'd the streaming flood, blood, Gave him great heart and hope of victory. Eve, recov'ring /•,. ..."

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