STREAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streaming mean? 

• STREAMING (noun)
  The noun STREAMING has 1 sense:

1. the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell

  Familiarity information: STREAMING used as a noun is very rare.

• STREAMING (adjective)
  The adjective STREAMING has 2 senses:

1. exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts

2. (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data

  Familiarity information: STREAMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREAMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

cyclosis; streaming

Hypernyms ("streaming" is a kind of...):

organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

• STREAMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

her streaming eyes

Participle:

stream (exude profusely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data

Context example:

streaming video recording

Similar:

unprocessed (not altered from an original or natural state)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

 Context examples 

The tears were streaming frankly down his cheeks.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The sea-water was streaming from him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Summerlee gave a cry and put his hand to his face, from which the blood was streaming.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was a big woman, and had long black hair: we could see it streaming against the flames as she stood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was dazed for a moment, but when he saw the sunlight streaming in through the edges of the shutters he thought he was late, and expressed his fear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Three weeks afterward the man lay in a bunk on the whale-ship Bedford, and with tears streaming down his wasted cheeks told who he was and what he had undergone.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Powerful winds of gas streaming from the surface of these stars are carrying some of their outer layers into interstellar space.

(Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way, NASA)

The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal magnesium and iron gas streaming from the strange world outside our solar system known as WASP-121b.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

The streaming umbrella which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told of the fierce weather through which he had come.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)