stream

stream is a 6-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
2. noun. A beam or ray of light.
3. noun. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
4. noun. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
5. noun. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
6. intransitive verb. 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.
7. intransitive verb. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
8. intransitive verb. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
9. intransitive verb. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
10. transitive verb. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
11. transitive verb. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
12. transitive verb. To unfurl.
13. noun. the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

    Synonyms: flow

14. noun. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)

    "the raft floated downstream on the current"

    "he felt a stream of air"

    Synonyms: current

15. noun. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

    "two streams of development run through American history"

    "stream of consciousness"

    Synonyms: current, flow

16. noun. a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

    Synonyms: watercourse

17. noun. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

    "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"

    "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

    Synonyms: flow

18. verb. exude profusely

    "She was streaming with sweat"

    "His nose streamed blood"

19. verb. move in large numbers

    "people were pouring out of the theater"

    "beggars pullulated in the plaza"

    Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem

20. verb. flow freely and abundantly

    "Tears streamed down her face"

21. verb. to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind

    "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"

22. verb. rain heavily

    "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"

    Synonyms: pelt, pour

Synonyms

flow, current, watercourse, pour, pullulate, swarm, teem, pelt

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stream:

armets, martes, master, maters, matres, ramets, remast, tamers

Common word forms

streams, streamed, streamer, streamful, streaming, streamless

Words from these letters

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