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  • adjective Resembling a stream or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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stream +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Which had become more streamlike and less fordlike during previous flash floods this fall.

    From Twitter 11-28-2009 e_moon60 2009

  • This section of the Umfuli was usually streamlike and picturesque.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • This section of the Umfuli was usually streamlike and picturesque.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • The wind swept by both sides of the streamlike cabin with a rushing sound like the distant roar of a huge cataract; the flexible window glass gave slightly to its pressure, but there was no sign of it breaking.

    Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

  • There was no sign of the dead; but when the invisible streams on the sand flats found their way beneath the ice, it rose and sank in streamlike lines.

    Paras. 1–99 1917

  • No sound was heard but the splashing of the strange waves all around them, and the streamlike gurgle of the current, which threaded its way smoothly through the tossing, tumultuous sea.

    A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910

  • Come night, when the party was due to return, she would spry up, trick herself out in something squashy, with the fashionable streamlike effect and a pretty pair of hammock stockings with white slippers, and become an animated porch wren.

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor.

    The Charm of Oxford 1892

  • Facebook refers to its own content presentation as a “stream”; Twitter’s is clearly streamlike; but both are random and chaotic, as well, and both must be seen as elements of the raw material level of the content cascade — bits and pieces that will be rejoined downstream in blog and wiki formats.

    The content cascade: How content will flow in digital news enterprises » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

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