stream

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" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

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noun

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

noun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

noun

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stream.

noun

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

noun

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

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"

noun

a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"

verb

to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"

verb

exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"

verb

move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"

verb

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

verb

flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"

Example sentences

" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream.

The overhead to get a single project is the same to get a constant stream of projects.

That's because RC4 is the only widely-supported stream cipher in TLS.

It implies that you can stream fragments of Lisp programs as small as a single form over sockets, and have them be compiled and evaluated as they arrive.

You get a shot for a few days that kicks up your normal bodily process of bone marrow production into overdrive, to the point where bone marrow cells enter your bloodstream.

Instead of behaving like a normal immune system these mutated cells did nothing but fill up my blood stream, inhibiting the growth and transport of normal white blood cells and platelets.

The most I've been able to reach in other circumstances is about 18 GB/s by doing multiple streams with interleaved reads, which allows the processor to take better advantage of open RAM banks.

Now lots of new book authors would love that deal because they know how to write books but they have no idea how to promote them into bookstores and Amazon's top lists etc. Unlike books though web apps don't pay out a revenue stream on per-unit sales.