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say it: streem
stream is a noun and verb meaning "a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth". It is pronounced /ˈstɹim/ — streem. It carries 10 recorded senses.
a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
“the raft floated downstream on the current”
“he felt a stream of air”
“the hose ejected a stream of water”
to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
“their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind”
rain heavily
“Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stream come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.