Royalty vs Stream - What's the difference?
royalty | stream |
The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right
The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
(by extension) payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
(poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
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, 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:
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, 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.
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, chapter=10 * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd
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(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.
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* 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 nouns the difference between royalty and stream
is that royalty is the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch while 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.royalty
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(royalties)References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
stream
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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.