Stream vs. River

Streamnoun

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

Streamnoun

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Streamnoun

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

Streamnoun

All moving waters.

Streamnoun

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

Streamnoun

(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

Streamnoun

A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Streamverb

(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

Streamverb

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

Streamverb

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

Streamnoun

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.

Streamnoun

A beam or ray of light.

Streamnoun

Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.

Streamnoun

A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.

Streamnoun

Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

Streamverb

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.

Streamverb

To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

Streamverb

To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

Streamverb

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

Streamverb

To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

Streamverb

To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

Streamverb

To unfurl.

Streamnoun

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

Streamnoun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

Streamnoun

a steady flow (usually from natural causes);

Streamnoun

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

Streamnoun

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;

Streamverb

to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind;

Streamverb

exude profusely;

Streamverb

move in large numbers;

Streamverb

rain heavily;

Streamverb

flow freely and abundantly;

Streamnoun

a small, narrow river

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas

Streamnoun

a mass of people or things moving continuously in the same direction

Streamnoun

a large number of things that happen or come one after the other

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of data or instructions, typically one having a constant or predictable rate.

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of video and audio material transmitted or received over the Internet.

Streamnoun

a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.

Streamverb

(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction

Streamverb

(of a mass of people or things) move in a continuous flow in a specified direction

Streamverb

run with tears, sweat, or other liquid

Streamverb

(of hair, clothing, etc.) float or wave at full extent in the wind

Streamverb

transmit or receive (data, especially video and audio material) over the Internet as a steady, continuous flow.

Streamverb

put (schoolchildren) in groups of the same age and ability to be taught together.

Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface water, subsurface water and groundwater.

Rivernoun

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea.

Rivernoun

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

Rivernoun

(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

Rivernoun

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Rivernoun

One who rives or splits.

Riververb

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

Rivernoun

One who rives or splits.

Rivernoun

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

Rivernoun

Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

Riververb

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Rivernoun

a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek);

Rivernoun

a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river

Rivernoun

a large quantity of a flowing substance

Rivernoun

used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers, e.g. river dolphin.

River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water.