Noun
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en-noun)
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
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|title=(
The Celebrity)|chapter=8
|passage=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:
* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-01|author=Nancy Langston|volume=101|issue=1|page=59
|magazine=(
American Scientist)
|title=
The Fraught History of a Watery World
|passage=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.}}
A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
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Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
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* {{quote-book|year=1963|author=(Margery Allingham)|title=(The China Governess)
|chapter=10
citation
|passage=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.}}
* {{quote-news|year=2011|date=December 21|author=Helen Pidd
|title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis|work=the Guardian
citation
|passage=A new
stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}
(sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
(UK|education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
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