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Downloads vs Streaming - What's the difference?

downloads | streaming |

As nouns the difference between downloads and streaming

is that downloads is while streaming is movement as a stream.

As a verb streaming is

.

As an adjective streaming is

that streams.

downloads

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (download)

    • Anagrams

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    streaming

    English

    (wikipedia streaming)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that streams

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • movement as a stream
  • (computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.
  • (UK, education) Division of classes into academic streams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

    Derived terms

    * streaming data * streaming encoder * streaming media * streaming movement * streaming radio * streaming server * streaming tape * streaming video * streaming XML

    See also

    * live stream * stream

    Anagrams

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