Constant vs Stream - What's the difference?
constant | stream |
Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-16, volume=409, issue=8862, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, title= Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Firm; solid; not fluid.
* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
(obsolete) Consistent; logical.
* Shakespeare, Twelfth Night IV.ii
That which is permanent or invariable.
(algebra) A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion.
(science) Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
(computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams , the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston, volume=101, issue=1, page=59
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=10 * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, work=the Guardian
(sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
* Milton
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
As a proper noun constant
is .As a noun stream is
a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.As a verb stream is
to flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.constant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The mindfulness business, passage=The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.}}
- Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
- I am constant to my purposes.
- His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
- Ifyou mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
- I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.
Noun
(en noun)See also
* (computing) literal ----stream
English
Noun
(en noun)The Fraught History of a Watery World, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams , channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
citation, passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
citation, passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}
Synonyms
* beck * brook * burn * creek * flow * rillVerb
(en verb)- beneath those banks where rivers stream
- When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed .
- A flag streams in the wind.