Noun

(en noun)

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:

* {{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.

Noun

(en noun)

A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.

(figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.

* A waterfall of mist from the open freezer.

(technical, computing, slang)

* ''A very long duration project [...] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.