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1. Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts
   "his streaming face"; "her streaming eyes"
    
2. (computing) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data
   "streaming audio"; "streaming video recording"

1. The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
   - cyclosis

1. To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
   "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
    
2. Exude profusely
   "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
    
3. Move in large numbers
   "people were streaming out of the theatre";
   - pour, swarm, teem, pullulate
    
4. Rain heavily
   "Put on your rain coat-- it's streaming outside!";
   - pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets, tip [Brit], chuck it down [Brit], chuck [Brit], teem, bucket [Brit]
    
5. Flow freely and abundantly
   "Tears streamed down her face";
   - well out
    
6. Play a video or audio file as it downloads from the Internet

Derived forms: streamings

See also: unprocessed

Type of: be adrift, blow, course, crowd, crowd together, drift, exudate, exude, feed, float, flow, ooze, ooze out, organic phenomenon, rain, rain down, run, transude

Encyclopedia: Streaming