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Salvo vs Stream - What's the difference?

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Salvo is a related term of stream.


As verbs the difference between salvo and stream

is that salvo is while stream is to flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

As a noun stream is

a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

salvo

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of , either from salvo jure'' literally 'the right being reserved', or from ''salvo errore et omissone 'reserving error and omission'.

Noun

(en noun)
  • An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
  • They admit many salvos , cautions, and reservations. --Eikon Basilike.
    2006 MetaFilter community weblog Britannica's issued a salvo against Nature's famous "Wikipedia and the EB are comparably error-strewn" analysis.

    Etymology 2

    A 1719 alteration of salva'' (1591) "simultaneous discharge of guns," from (etyl) , imperative of salvere: "be in good health!," the usual Roman greeting, regarded as imperative of ''salvere "to be in good health,"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
  • By extension, any volley, as in an argument or debate.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.}}
  • A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
  • See also

    * the Salvos

    stream

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • 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 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.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd
  • , title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, work=the Guardian citation , passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * beck * brook * burn * creek * flow * rill

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
  • * Milton
  • beneath those banks where rivers stream
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • 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 .
  • To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
  • A flag streams 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.
  • Anagrams

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