stream – English noun declension

English noun forms of stream

Noun: stream
Singularstream
Pluralstreams

Sample Sentences

  • Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…]. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River. [2013 January 26, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:]
  • He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
  • to swim against the stream
  • Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
  • With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen. [2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:]
  • Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
  • In the context of computer science, lexical analysis can be defined as the conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens.
  • If your favorite Succession storylines involve the fictional ATN and network drama, give Apple TV’s The Morning Show a stream. [2023 May 3, Courtney Young, “13 Shows to Binge When ‘Succession’ Ends”, in Cosmopolitan:]
  • All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.
  • Not to switch streams, but we really need to focus on talking about the economy right now...

Etymology

1. From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
2. Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian Stroom, struum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Faroese streymur (“stream”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”). See: Dutch Nouns 'stroom', German Nouns 'Strom', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'straum', Swedish Nouns 'ström', Faroese Nouns 'streymur', Icelandic Nouns 'straumur', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ῥεῦμα', Polish Nouns 'strumień'.

Verbs referencing "stream"

Dutch Nouns stream, Danish Nouns strøm, Old Norse Nouns straumr, Dutch Nouns stroom, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns straum, Russian Nouns стрим, Finnish Nouns striimi.