Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in streams.
  • Full of or emitting streaming rays of light.
  • Having the form of a beam or stream of light.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.
  • adjective Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective resembling a stream; streamlike
  • adjective full of streams

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Examples

  • But the cocktail has its literary champions, who have risen to the challenge of its cracking ice and its high alcohol content, which renders streams of consciousness that much more streamy and associative.

    Lev Grossman's Favorite Cocktails In Literature 2011

  • _He tried to howl, but between the lipless hole the brain, grey and streamy red, came and clogged his cry.

    V. Ranzetta & Graeme De Timms (a Luan Ranzetta coda) Steve 2009

  • The progress of the car down Elm Street, the movement of the film through the camera body, some sharable darkness—this was a death that seemed to rise from the streamy debris of the deep mind, it came from some night of the mind, there was some trick of film emulsion that showed the ghost of consciousness.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The progress of the car down Elm Street, the movement of the film through the camera body, some sharable darkness—this was a death that seemed to rise from the streamy debris of the deep mind, it came from some night of the mind, there was some trick of film emulsion that showed the ghost of consciousness.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The progress of the car down Elm Street, the movement of the film through the camera body, some sharable darkness—this was a death that seemed to rise from the streamy debris of the deep mind, it came from some night of the mind, there was some trick of film emulsion that showed the ghost of consciousness.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Coleridge complained that the Lockean system of replayed associations turned the world into a phantasmagoria, in which sense data floated free from objects, and images from substance; a streamy associative flow of pleasurable images, as Coleridge elsewhere puts it (1957: 1770).

    Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

  • When he was done, his round face smooth and streamy and his eyes stinging from soapy water, he reached for a towel.

    Babbit 2004

  • They wanted lots of huge snuggly cuddles like I used to give them, but now I get sneezy and streamy after a while which is sad.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • In the Christian tradition deriving from Augustine, the inevitable result of habitually indulging such resistances is sin, and Coleridge was morbidly sensitive to the sinful tendencies of the "streamy nature of the associating Faculty" in his own imaginative life when it was left to itself, as in dreams and reveries (Coburn, Notebooks, 1.1833).

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • Daphne and Lady Jane were to fish the Calm Pool, a good holding pool, and were told that the streamy water at the top was best.

    Death of a Gossip Beaton, M. C. 1985

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