flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
parallel bars bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights |
Stars and Bars Confederate flag | the first flag of the Confederate States of America |
uneven parallel bars uneven bars | a pair of parallel bars set at different heights, used in women's gymnastics |
mustachio moustachio handle-bars | a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) |
bloodstream blood stream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system |
stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience |
stream of consciousness | a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy |
current stream | 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 |
torrent violent stream | a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid), the houses were swept away in the torrent |
stream flow current | 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 |
alluvial sediment alluvial deposit alluvium alluvion | clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down |
sediment deposit | matter that has been deposited by some natural process |
stream watercourse | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
tidal river tidewater river tidal stream tidewater stream | a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream |
surrogate alternate replacement | someone who takes the place of another person |
alternating current AC alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |
jet stream | a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere, has important effects of the formation of weather fronts |
Gulf stream | a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean |
meteor shower meteor stream | a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere |
stream orchid chatterbox giant helleborine Epipactis gigantea | orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf |
stream flow | 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 |
stream | exude profusely, She was streaming with sweat, His nose streamed blood |
alternate take turns | do something in turns, We take turns on the night shift |
alternate jump | go back and forth, swing back and forth between two states or conditions |
interchange tack switch alternate flip flip-flop | reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) |
understudy alternate | be an understudy or alternate for a role |
sediment | settle as sediment |
sediment | deposit as a sediment |
pour swarm stream teem pullulate | move in large numbers, people were pouring out of the theater, beggars pullulated in the plaza |
stream well out | flow freely and abundantly, Tears streamed down her face |
stream | to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind, their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind |
alternate | exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions |
a imprison incarcerate lag immure put behind bars jail jug gaol put away remand a | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail, The suspects were imprisoned without trial, the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life |
pour pelt stream rain cats and dogs rain buckets | rain heavily, Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside! |
alternate(a) alternating(a) | occurring by turns, first one and then the other, alternating feelings of love and hate |
alternate(a) | every second one of a series, the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays, jam every other day- the White Queen |
alternating | (of a current) reversing direction, alternating current |
alternate | of leaves and branches etc, first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis, not paired, stems with alternate leaves |
alternate alternative substitute | serving or used in place of another, an alternative plan |