noun

• (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
  "Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture."
• (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
  "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."
• (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
  "All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream."

verb

• (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
  "beneath those banks where rivers now stream"
• (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
  "A flag streams in the wind."
• (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
  "The soldier's wound was streaming blood."
• (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.