What's the difference between stream and streamer?

Stream


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
  • (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
  • (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
  • (n.) A beam or ray of light.
  • (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
  • (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
  • (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
  • (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
  • (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
  • (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
  • (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
  • (v. t.) To unfurl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (3) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (4) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
  • (5) Animal behaviour can be viewed as a stream of elements, which, once accurately described, can be counted and timed.
  • (6) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
  • (7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (8) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
  • (9) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (10) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
  • (11) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (12) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
  • (13) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (14) A high stability of the blood stream in the vascular constructions studied is explained as a possibility of counterstream gas exchange between the arterial and venous blood in the truncal vascular micromodule.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
  • (16) The pulmonary efflux streams by the buccal contents with minimal mixing, and relatively pure air is pumped into the lungs.
  • (17) Jay-Z has won control of a Swedish music streaming company after more than 90% of shareholders accepted the star’s $54m (£36m) offer.
  • (18) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
  • (19) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
  • (20) The correct diagnosis was assisted by marked leucocytosis with the release of a major number of plasmatic cells into the peripheral blood stream.

Streamer


Definition:

  • (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
  • (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
  • (n.) A searcher for stream tin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Sertoli cells possessed a "streamer" like formation of strong TPPase activity spreading from basal to apical portion.
  • (2) One happy online user described the marinades thus: "Turns ordinary, boring, everyday chicken into a Festival of Chicken, complete with chicken-skin streamers and party giblets".
  • (3) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.
  • (4) A class of aggregation pattern mutants called 'streamers' have been isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum and analysed genetically.
  • (5) In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.
  • (6) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
  • (7) Streamer F mutants have been found to be useful tools for studying the pathway of signal transduction leading to chemotactic cell movement.
  • (8) The growing tips and fine spike-like sprouts called 'streamers' were also highly stained with laminin immunoreactivity.
  • (9) The total number of complementation groups giving the streamer phenotype is estimated from statistical calculation, based on the frequency of allelism, to be between seven and nine.
  • (10) Still 0-0 1.16am GMT 48 mins The most exciting thing to have happened in this second half so far are the enormous number of streamers that descended on Jimmy Nielsen and the KC goal area.
  • (11) "Twitch remains a lot more 'wild west', with streamers often playing music in the background without thinking too much about copyright law.
  • (12) "It is customary to welcome the team in Argentina with a display of fireworks, bombardas (small bombs that make a big noise but do not actually explode) and confetti - plus paper streamers that are mostly rolls of toilet paper.
  • (13) Measurements in streamer F mutant cells reveal that cGMP likely plays a role in the regulation of the cAMP-induced hyperpolarization.
  • (14) If your daughter has a pink bike with streamers on the handlebars, and those elements are understood as distinctly feminine, then you're far less likely to hand it on to your son.
  • (15) Bacterial colony counts and quantitative estimation of vaginal epithelial cells were performed on urine collected by 18 female volunteers using conventional clean-catch technics and on urine collected by the same 18 women using the Clean Streamer.
  • (16) There might still be a few empty seats, but someone at least thought to bring a massive yellow streamer and launch it out onto the field near the left sideline.
  • (17) Characteristic features of pattern alopecia included: the presence of miniature or vellus follicles; a marked enlargement of the sebaceous glands and arrectores pilorum muscles; the presence of connective tissue streamers beneath the vellus follicles; and the thinning of the dermis.
  • (18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "At the start of the Copa Libertadores final at Boca Juniors, the fans converted their stadium into a garbage dump by covering the playing field in litter and draping paper streamers over the goal posts with no attempt to clear the debris," noted Ian Simpson, way back when.
  • (19) Bleeding is a major consideration; surface tension tends to keep venous blood oozing along surfaces, whereas pulsatile arterial blood forms droplets, streamers, and clouds, depending on the force of the bleeding.
  • (20) This isolate produced copious amounts of extracellular polymer at 10 C in the laboratory and was considered to be the primary source of polymer in the "acid streamer" slime matrix.