What is the meaning of stream?

noun

• A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
  • synonyms: watercourse
• Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
  • usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
  • synonyms: flow, current
• The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
  • synonyms: flow
• Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.
  • usage: "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
  • synonyms: flow
• A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes. )
  • usage: "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"
  • synonyms: current

verb

• To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind.
  • usage: "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
• Exude profusely.
  • usage: "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
• Move in large numbers.
  • usage: "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
  • synonyms: pour, swarm, teem, pullulate
• Rain heavily.
  • usage: "Put on your rain coat- it's pouring outside"
  • synonyms: pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
• Flow freely and abundantly.
  • usage: "Tears streamed down her face"
  • synonyms: well out