Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

         It may so please that she at length will stream Some
         dew of grace into my withered heart.     --Spenser.

   2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

            The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon.

   3. To unfurl. --Shak.

   {To stream the buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}.

Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries.
   str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum,
   str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth,
   Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to
   flow, Skr. sru. [root]174. Cf. {Catarrh}, {Diarrhea},
   {Rheum}, {Rhythm}.]
   1. 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.

   2. A beam or ray of light. ``Sun streams.'' --Chaucer.

   3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of
      parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. ``The
      stream of beneficence.'' --Atterbury. ``The stream of
      emigration.'' --Macaulay.

   4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
      ``The very stream of his life.'' --Shak.

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

   {Gulf stream}. See under {Gulf}.

   {Stream anchor}, {Stream cable}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor},
      and {Cable}.

   {Stream ice}, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in
      some definite direction.

   {Stream tin}, particles or masses of tin ore found in
      alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is
      the principal agent used in separating the ore from the
      sand and gravel.

   {Stream works} (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial
      deposit of tin ore is worked. --Ure.

   {To float with the stream}, figuratively, to drift with the
      current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or
      check it.

Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Streamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Streaming}.]
   1. 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.

            Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.

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

            A thousand suns will stream on thee.  --Tennyson.

   3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

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

Source : WordNet®

stream
     n 1: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the
          earth [syn: {watercourse}]
     2: 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" [syn: {flow}, {current}]
     3: a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft
        floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
        air" [syn: {current}]
     4: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
        [syn: {flow}]
     5: 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" [syn: {flow}]

stream
     v 1: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their
          manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
     2: exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose
        streamed blood"
     3: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
        theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: {pour},
        {swarm}, {teem}, {pullulate}]
     4: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
        outside!" [syn: {pour}, {pelt}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain
        buckets}]
     5: flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
        [syn: {well out}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

STREAM
     
        ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital
        Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and
        Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987].
     
        (1995-01-30)

stream
     
        1.  An {abstraction} referring to any flow of
        data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or
        receiver, consumer).  A stream usually flows through a channel
        of some kind, as opposed to {packet}s which may be addressed
        and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients.
        Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a
        channel or a "{connection}" between the sender and receiver.
     
        2.  In the {C} language's buffered input/ouput
        library functions, a stream is associated with a file or
        device which has been opened using {fopen}.  Characters may be
        read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual
        source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently
        by the library routines.
     
        3.  Confusingly, {Sun} have called their
        modular {device driver} mechanism "{STREAMS}".
     
        4.  In {IBM}'s {AIX} {operating system}, a
        stream is a {full-duplex} processing and data transfer path
        between a driver in {kernel space} and a process in {user
        space}.
     
        [IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts,
        SC23-2206-03].
     
        5.  {streaming}.
     
        6.  {lazy list}.
     
        (1996-11-06)