stream

Noun

• 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
    

• something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
  • a stream of people emptied from the terminal
    
  • the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
    

• the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

• dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
  • two streams of development run through American history
    
  • stream of consciousness
    
  • the flow of thought
    
  • the current of history
    

• a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

Verb

• flow freely and abundantly
  • Tears streamed down her face
    

• rain heavily
  • Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
    

• move in large numbers
  • people were pouring out of the theater
    
  • beggars pullulated in the plaza
    

• exude profusely
  • She was streaming with sweat
    
  • His nose streamed blood
    

• to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
  • their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  current , flow , watercourse , well out , pour , pelt , rain cats and dogs , rain buckets , swarm , teem , pullulate