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"STREAMS" is a plural of: stream. |
Date "STREAMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | STREAMS |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A stream is a body of water, confined within a bed and banks, and having a detectable current. Synonyms or related words include river, creek, tributary, run, branch, brook, bourne, wash, and fork. Navigable streams are sometimes called waterways.
In the United States, an intermittent stream is one that only flows for part of the year and is marked on topographic maps with a line of blue dashes and dots. A blue-line stream is one which flows for most or all of the year and is marked on topographic maps with a solid blue line. In Australia, an intermittent stream is usually called a creek, and marked on topographic maps with a solid blue line.
Streams in geographic terms are awarded order designations. A stream of the first order is a blue-line stream which does not have any other blue-line stream feeding into it. A stream of the second order is one which is formed by the joining of two or more blue-line streams. A third-order stream is one below the confluence of two or more second-order streams; a fourth-order stream is formed by the confluence of at least two third-order streams, and so forth.
Typically, streams are said to have a particular profile, beginning with steep gradients, no flood plain, and little shifting of channels, eventually evolving into streams with low gradients, wide flood plains, and extensive meanders. The initial stage is sometimes termed a "young" stream, and the later state a "mature" or "old" stream. However, a stream may meander for some distance before falling into a "young" stream condition.
The gradient of a stream is a critical factor in determining its character, and is entirely determined by its base level of erosion. The base level of erosion is the point at which the stream either enters the ocean, a lake or pond, or enters a stretch in which it has a much lower gradient, and may be specifically applied to any particular stretch of a stream. In geologic terms, the stream will erode down through its bed to achieve the base level of erosion throughout its course. If this base level is low, then the stream will rapidly cut through underlying strata and have a steep gradient, and if the base level is relatively high, then the stream will form a flood plain and meanders.
When a stream flows over an especially resistant stratum and forms a waterfall or cascade, or the same results because for some reason the base level of erosion suddenly drops, perhaps as a result of a fault, the resulting sudden change in stream elevation is called a nickpoint. The stream, of course, expends kinetic energy in "trying" to eliminate the nickpoint.
Meanders are looping changes of direction of a stream. These may be somewhat sine-wave in form. Typically, over time, the meanders don't disappear but gradually migrate downstream. However, if some resistant material slows or stops the downstream movement of a meander, a stream may erode through the neck between two legs of a meander to become temporarily straighter, leaving behind an arc-shaped body of water termed an oxbow lake or bayou. A flood may also result in a meander being cut through in this way.
The study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and is important in environmental geography or environmental geology.
See also: Stream bed, Gulf stream, Jet stream, Streaming media.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stream."
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Streaming media is a term that describes "just in time" delivery of multimedia information. It's typically applied to compressed multimedia formats delivered over the Internet. It does not try to reassemble as many bits associated with video content as binary computer file formats do. (COMPARE AVI)There are many pieces to a streaming media system. Encoding tools are used for compressing the media into a format suitable for delivery over the Internet. Servers make the compressed files and live streams available to many people. Players connect to the servers and get the media.
Additionally, there's a lot of technology under the hood. Codecs are the compression/decompression routines used by encoding tools and players. File formats are shared by encoding tools and servers to generically store encoded streams. Players and servers need shared protocols for streaming the data.
- Streaming media systems:
- VideoLAN
- Apple's QuickTime
- Nullsoft's SHOUTcast
- Icecast
- Microsoft's Windows Media
- MPEG-4
- RealNetworks' RealSystem
- ffmpeg
- Codecs: see codec
- Protocols:
- HTTP
- RTSP
- RTP
- File formats
- mp3PRO
- QuickTime
- AVI
- Description Formats
- SDP - Session Description Protocol
- SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Streaming media."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| STRAND | English | Streams AND Parallelism | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: STREAMSSynonyms: Brooks, Creeks, Rivers. (additional references) |
Crosswords: STREAMS |
| Specialty definitions using "STREAMS": Data Streams. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STREAMS": Sink. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't cross the streams. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) You said crossing the streams is bad. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis) | |
Lyrics | Dry the streams still flowing (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay) Waterfalls and streams, these liquid dreams (Liquid Dreams; performing artist: O-Town) Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them, (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith) I love, little country streams, (I Love; performing artist: Tom T. Hall) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love Streams (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Anopheles earlei is found in woodland pools, bogs, marshes and along sluggish streams. The vector status of this species is unknown. Credit: CDC. |  | Weed-choked irrigation ditches result in sluggish streams. Such environments may contain larvae of Culex tarsalis and Anopheles punctipennis. Credit: CDC. |
 | Wetlands with tidal streams. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A crayfish home along a Calvert County stream. Crayfish use mud balls to create towers over their holes along freshwater streams. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The tidewater streams of Charleston illuminated in the late afternoon sun. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Salmon being counted when passing through weirs. By law, a certain percentage of salmon runs had to be allowed to escape commercial fisheries in order to spawn. To check the percentage, counting weirs were maintained on many streams. F&W - 10,111. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | The understory at Glade Bekken watershed is natural and desirable as spawning habitat for coho and chum salmon that are found in the streams in this watershed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. A magnificent view of wetlands and tidal streams in the Ashe Island area. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Aerial view of Taskinas Creek area showing the very low gradient, meandering tidal streams. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Figure 23. Current meter invented by Jacob Amsler-Laffon about 1876. This instrument was devised to measure the currents of streams and rivers. It was an application of Woltman's electrical turnstile method of measuring the current. The first use of this instrument was in the Rhine River near Schaffhouse in 1876 . 278 measurements were made at 26 stations at 6 meters depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "In_this_corner" by Jason Smith Commentary: "Light streams through two windows." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
John Locke | Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. |
Lord Byron | Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. |
Virgil | May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Streams of blood ran from beneath him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The sweat beaded on his nose and under his eyes and formed streams in the wrinkles of his neck |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Do not drink water directly from lakes, rivers, streams, or springs. (references) | |
Avoid drinking untreated water from shallow wells, lakes, rivers, springs, ponds, and streams. (references) | ||
Surface water and mountain streams can become contaminated from infected feces from cows or wild birds. (references) | ||
Business | Most major cities in Romania still have no purification system for their urban wastewater, which flows directly into rivers and streams. (references) | |
However, waste streams covered by extended producer responsibility regulations for packaging, waste paper, tires and cars are excluded from collection by the municipalities. (references) | ||
The UK is not convinced of the overall benefit of collecting all types of batteries - having preferred to dilute them in other waste streams on disposal - but accepts that this would greatly improve the prospects for capturing larger quantities of hazardous varieties. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kenya | The MIM targets mature companies with strong dividend streams. (references) |
Rwanda | Given the abundance of mountain streams and lakes, the potential for hydroelectric power is substantial. (references) | |
Sao Tome and Principe | Both islands are crossed by swift streams radiating down the mountains through lush forest and cropland to the sea. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | The judgement further recognized that forests, rivers, and streams adjacent to indigenous communities also are included under native customary rights. (references) |
Political Economy | Netherlands | The D66 party combines views from left and liberal streams, while advocating political reform. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | It is unsafe to swim in freshwater streams and lagoons. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Difficulties, too, were presenting themselves as to the navigation of other streams which, arising within our territories, pass through those adjacent. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By extending our Government on the principles of our Constitution over the vast territory within our limits, on the Lakes and the Mississippi and its numerous streams, new life and vigor are infused into every part of our system. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "STREAMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STREAMS" is used about 806 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 806 | 8,639 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STREAMS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Streams | Last name | 130 | 59,946 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "STREAMS": streams-based. | |
Ending with "STREAMS": bullet-streams, jet-streams, light-streams, mountain-streams, side-streams. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STREAMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 小河 (Beck, Creek, Creeks, stream). (various references) | |
Finnish | vuotaa virtanaan (flow in streams, gush out in streams), MIMD-rakenne (example:Dataflow, MIMD, multiple-data streams, multiple-instruction, multiple-instruction streams), levylämmönvaihdin (plate-type heat exchangers are preferred for small fluid streams), joet tulvivat (the streams flooded). (various references) | |
German | strömt. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sok kicsi sokra megy (it's the numbers that pay, little streams make great rivers, little strokes fell great oaks). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terburai (hang out in strands, spill out in streams). (various references) | |
Korean | 시내 (Brook, Brooks, Creek, Creeks, stream). (various references) | |
Manx | strooanagh (full of streams, streaming). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamsstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ribeiros. (various references) | |
Swedish | MIMD-arkitektur (example:Dataflow, MIMD, multiple-data streams, multiple-instruction, multiple-instruction streams), in-och utgående materialströmmar (input and output streams). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Wsper ormh udatoV outwV kardia basilewV en ceiri qeou ou ean qelwn neush ekei eklinen authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut divisiones aquarum ita cor regis in manu Domini quocumque voluerit inclinabit illud |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As deueseouns of watris, so the herte of the king in the hond of the Lord; whider euere he wile, he shal bowe it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang kasingkasing sa hari anaa sa kamot ni Jehova maingon sa mga baha sa tubig: Siya nagapaliso niini sa bisan diin nga siya magabuot. |
| Chinese | 王 的 心 在 耶 和 華 手 中 、 好 像 隴 溝 的 水 、 隨 意 流 轉 。 |
| Croatian | Kraljevo je srce u ruci Jahve kao voda tekuæica; vodi ga kuda god hoæe. |
| Danish | En Konges hjerte er Bække i HERRENs hånd, han leder det hen, hvor han vil. |
| Dutch | Des konings hart is in de hand des HEEREN als waterbeken. Hij neigt het tot al wat Hij wil. |
| Finnish | Kuninkaan sydän on Herran kädessä kuin vesiojat: hän taivuttaa sen, kunne tahtoo. |
| German | Des Königs Herz ist in der Hand des HERRN wie Wasserbäche, und er neigt es wohin er will. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Seyè a dirije lespri yon wa, menm jan li dirije yon kouran dlo nan kannal. Li mennen l' kote li vle. |
| Hungarian | Mint a vizeknek folyásai, olyan a királynak szíve az Úrnak kezében, valahová akarja, oda hajtja azt! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sama seperti TUHAN mengatur air sungai supaya mengalir menurut kehendak-Nya, begitu juga Ia membimbing pikiran raja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa hati raja adalah dalam tangan Tuhan seperti air sungai, dialirkan-Nya barang ke mana dikehendaki-Nya. |
| Italian | Il cuore del re è un canale d'acqua in mano al Signore: lo dirige dovunque egli vuole. |
| Maori | ¶ Kei roto te ngakau o te kingi i te ringa o Ihowa ano he awa rerenga wai; e whakaangahia ana e ia ki nga wahi katoa e pai ai ia. |
| Norwegian | Kongens hjerte er som bekker i Herrens hånd, han bøier det dit han vil. |
| Portuguese | Como corrente de águas é o coração do rei na mão do Senhor; ele o inclina para onde quer. |
| Rumanian | Inima kmpqratului este ca un rku de apq kn mkna Domnului, pe care kl kndreaptq kncotro vrea. - |
| Russian | уЕТДГЕ ГБТС--Ч ТХЛЕ зПУРПДБ, ЛБЛ РПФПЛЙ ЧПД: ЛХДБ ЪБИПЮЕФ, пО ОБРТБЧМСЕФ ЕЗП. |
| Swedish | Fortsättning av den första samlingen av salomoniska ordspråk. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STREAMS": streamside, streamsides. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "STREAMS": airstreams, bloodstreams, counterstreams, headstreams, mainstreams, midstreams, millstreams, slipstreams. (additional references) | |
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"STREAMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ostertags, Servamus, sricams, stramash, strea, streames, strean, streats, strem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STREAMS" (pronounced strē"mz) |
| 6 | s t r ē" m z | extremes. |
| 4 | -r ē" m z | creams, dreams, reams, screams. |
| 3 | -ē" m z | beams, deems, gleams, racemes, redeems, regimes, schemes, seams, seems, steams, teams, teems, themes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: masters. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: armets, assert, asters, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, ramets, smarts, smears, stares, steams, stream, tamers. | |
-2 letters: armet, arses, asset, aster, easts, mares, marse, marts, maser, masse, masts, mater, mates, meats, mesas, ramet, rases, rates, reams, rests, satem, sates, seams, sears, seats, smart, smear, stare, stars, steam, stems, tamer, tames, tares, tasse, teams. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: armrests, asterism, hamsters, lamsters, maestros, masseter, mattress, misrates, restamps, sarments, seamster, smartens, smartest, smarties, smatters, stammers, stampers, steamers, tramless. | |
+2 letters: amortises, asterisms, atomisers, ceramists, foremasts, gamesters, lamisters, magisters, maltsters, marmosets, marshiest, masseters, masteries, matrasses, megastars, misalters, mistakers, mistraces, mistreats, monsteras, prestamps, remasters, scimetars, scramjets, seamsters, semestral, smarmiest, smartness, smeariest, spymaster, staumrels, steersman, stemwares, sterigmas, streamers, teamsters, teratisms. | |
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