Streamest vs Steamest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (stream)
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.
(archaic) (steam)
The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
(figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
(figuratively) Pent-up anger.
A steam-powered vehicle.
Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
(obsolete) Any exhalation.
* Milton
(cooking) To cook with steam.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
To produce or vent steam.
* Dryden
To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
* Boyle
(figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
(figuratively) To make angry.
To be covered with condensed water vapor.
To travel by means of steam power.
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(figuratively, or, literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
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(obsolete) To exhale.
Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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is that streamest is (archaic) (stream) while steamest is (archaic) (steam).As verbs the difference between streamest and steamest
is that streamest is (archaic) (stream) while steamest is (archaic) (steam).streamest
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Verb
(head)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.}}
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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
* ----steamest
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Verb
(head)steam
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(wikipedia steam)Noun
(-)- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam .
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam .
- a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
Synonyms
* (a steam-powered vehicle) steamerDerived terms
* blow off steam * build up steam * steam bath * steamboat * steam boiler * steam condenser * steam distillation * steam engine * steam hammer * steam heater * steam iron * steam locomotive * steam power * steam-powered * steam railroad * steamroller * steamship * steam shovel * steam train * steam turbine * run out of steam * under one's own steamVerb
(en verb)- to steam wood or cloth
- My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
- The dissolved amber steamed away into the air.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- The vessel steamed out of port.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
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