n. 1 brook, brooklet, streamlet, rivulet, tributary, river, freshet, run, watercourse, waterway, channel, Chiefly literary rill, runnel, Literary or N Brit dialect beck, burn, Archaic NE US except in placenames kill, US creek, branch If the streams continue to swell, flooding can be expected in low-lying areas 2 flow, current, outpouring, effluence or efflux, effusion, rush, spurt, surge, fountain, geyser, torrent, flood, deluge, cataract, cascade A stream of bubbles showed where the diver was swimming A stream of obscenities poured from his lips. 3 flow, rush, swarm, tide, flood, deluge, succession, series, row, line, string, chain, barrage, Brit queue Simon has had a constant stream of visitors all morning
v. 4 run, flow, course, glide, rush, slide, slip, surge; pour, issue, emanate, gush, flood, spout, well up or out or forth, squirt, spurt, shoot, jet; cascade The rain streamed down the windows 5 issue, emanate; rush, surge, pour, flood, file, proceed, march, walk, move People streamed in and out of the building all day long