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Streaming vs Watching - What's the difference?

streaming | watching |

As verbs the difference between streaming and watching

is that streaming is present participle of lang=en while watching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between streaming and watching

is that streaming is movement as a stream while watching is the act of one who watches.

As an adjective streaming

is that streams.

streaming

English

(wikipedia streaming)

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that streams

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • movement as a stream
  • (computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.
  • (UK, education) Division of classes into academic streams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

    Derived terms

    * streaming data * streaming encoder * streaming media * streaming movement * streaming radio * streaming server * streaming tape * streaming video * streaming XML

    See also

    * live stream * stream

    Anagrams

    * * * * *

    watching

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
    • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching