What's the difference between stream and wellspring?

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.

Wellspring


Definition:

  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The current problems and conflicts associated with training of vascular and general surgery residents exemplify the larger dilemma of educating subspecialists while preserving the wellspring of general surgery.
  • (2) The Wellspring Collective – they're good, they've dropped their prices down to compete with other shops, like Ganja Gourmet , right here.
  • (3) yet last week his administration cited as a wellspring of legal authority for the latest war.
  • (4) In Tunisia, the wellspring of the 2011 uprisings, the ruling party is Ennahda – a movement regarded as the Tunisian manifestation of the Brotherhood that, before the revolution, was practically in exile.
  • (5) The planning and cost of that road has overshadowed the long-planned development of a new container port, dubbed the outer harbour, at Kwinana – also outside the Canning electoral boundary, but a potential wellspring of jobs for the working-class suburbs that make up Canning’s northern reaches.
  • (6) Dan’s Silverleaf , part of a terrace of converted warehouses on Industrial Street near the square, is one of the wellsprings of the scene.
  • (7) This is the source of the intense current interest and wellspring of the grief that will flow when he is gone.
  • (8) Without public support, the wellspring from which future innovation and growth will come will dry up – not to say what will happen to our increasingly divided society.
  • (9) Having faced down the totalitarian dangers of fascism and communism, the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely – because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress.
  • (10) If all political belief originates from one of two wellsprings, if the last thing you should do to propagate your belief is to water it down, if backing it up with facts just weakens it, what would a debate look like, in a world of perfectly understood frames?
  • (11) Star Wars: The Force Awakens review – 'a spectacular homecoming' Read more In this reading, the original evil – the wellspring of Darth Vader and Sidious – is borrowed from Hitler.
  • (12) His own life would have been sadder if the wellspring of laughter inside him had not run so deep.
  • (13) It won’t be easy … but I remain hopeful.” ‘We’re going to leave it all on the field’ Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told the Guardian: “What [everyone is] missing is that although the secretary [Clinton] has obviously racked up a substantial delegate lead, there is an incredible wellspring of support for the senator and it has not really made it through the process.” Weaver seems confident of a win in California.
  • (14) Paul said he was preparing to contest the reauthorization of 702, the legal wellspring of the NSA’s controversial Prism program.
  • (15) The first was to be established in Shanghai, a city that had been the wellspring of the most virulently leftist form of violent Maoist class struggle during the Cultural Revolution.
  • (16) Sensitivity on these issues is understandably high, given the rising incidence of antisemitism and hate crimes of all sorts, as well as Trump’s (possibly waning) closeness to Steve Bannon , whose Breitbart news is a wellspring of bigotry and propaganda.
  • (17) The HDZ has ruled since Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991, with the exception of a three-year hiatus in 2000-3, and in the past two years has been exposed as the wellspring of state-organised corruption and embezzlement on a massive scale.
  • (18) There is a wellspring of support within the nursing profession for the development of a true nursing paradigm, based on a unified theory to support practice, to advance the professional status of nursing in a changing health care environment.
  • (19) Saudi salafism is not the wellspring of hardline Islamic groups worldwide, but it is part of something that might be – a tendency for Arab and Muslim governments to pay lip service to Islam to bolster their religious credentials through politically expedient means.
  • (20) Civil libertarians consider the measure – the wellspring of the NSA’s Prism and “ upstream ” mass communications-data collection – unconstitutional .