Stream vs Branch - What's the difference?
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A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
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, 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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(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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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.
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
A location of an organization with several locations.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
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(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see .
An area in business or of knowledge, research.
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(nautical) A certificate given by (Trinity House) to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
(computer architecture) A sequence of .
To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
To produce branches.
To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
(computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
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.As a proper noun branch is
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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.
Anagrams
* ----branch
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(es) (wikipedia branch)- the branch of an antler, a chandelier, a river, or a railway
- the branches of a hyperbola
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
- the English branch of a family
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}