streaming

streaming
    adj 1: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming
           face"; "her streaming eyes"
    2: (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous
       tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of
       unedited data; "streaming audio"; "streaming video recording"
    n 1: the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell [syn:
         {cyclosis}, {streaming}]
    

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.
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            Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.
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   2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
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            A thousand suns will stream on thee.  --Tennyson.
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   3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
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   4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in
      the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
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Streaming \Stream"ing\, a.
   Sending forth streams.
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Streaming \Stream"ing\, n.
   1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of
      that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
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   2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for
      stream tin.
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   3. (Biol.) the rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; --
      called also {protoplasmic streaming}.
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streaming

   <communications> Playing {sound} or {video} in {real time} as
   it is downloaded over the {Internet} as opposed to storing it
   in a local file first.  A {plug-in} to a {web browser} such as
   {Netscape Navigator} decompresses and plays the data as it is
   transferred to your computer over the {World-Wide Web}.
   Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in
   downloading an entire file and then playing it with a {helper
   application}.  Streaming requires a fast connection and a
   computer powerful enough to execute the decompression
   {algorithm} in {real time}.

   (1996-11-06)
    

123 Moby Thesaurus words for "streaming":
      affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward,
      bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing,
      bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat-and-doggish, confluent,
      coursing, dangling, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent,
      down-trending, downward, drifting, drippy, driving, drizzling,
      drizzly, drooping, drumming, easy, flapping, flowing, fluent,
      flushing, fluxional, fluxive, flying, gleaming, gleamy, glinting,
      glowing, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging,
      illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, lax, light as day,
      loose, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
      luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mazy, meandering,
      misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mounting, orient, passing, pelting,
      plunging, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, profluent,
      progressive, racing, radiant, rainy, reflowing, refluent,
      regressive, relaxed, retrogressive, rickety, rising, rotary,
      rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, rutilant, rutilous,
      serpentine, shaky, shining, shiny, showery, sideward, sinking,
      slack, sloppy, sluggish, soaring, starbright, starlike, starry,
      suffused, sunny, sunshiny, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending,
      upward, vortical