Ongoing and Stream

adjective

• Currently happening.
  • usage: "an ongoing economic crisis"
  • synonyms: on-going

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

• (v.t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
• (v.i.) To pour out or emit, a stream or streams.
• (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
• (v.t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
• (v.i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
• (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
• (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
• (n.) A beam or ray of light.
• (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc. or from a vessel, reservoir or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
• (v.i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
• (v.i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
• (v.t.) To unfurl.