Streaming vs. Broadcast — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Streaming and Broadcast
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Streaming
A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
Broadcast
To communicate or transmit (a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming) to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network
A radio station that broadcasts news.
An agency broadcasting an appeal for donations over the internet.
Streaming
A steady current in such a flow of water.
Broadcast
To make known over a wide area
Reporters who broadcast unchecked rumors in order to get the story out first.
"The birds sang in flight because that was the only way, in this treeless terrain, to broadcast their claims across their chosen pieces of land" (Kenn Kaufman).
Streaming
A steady current of a fluid.
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Broadcast
To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.
Streaming
A large amount or number moving or occurring in steady succession
A stream of commuters.
A stream of insults.
Broadcast
To communicate or transmit a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming, to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network.
Streaming
A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history.
Broadcast
The act or process of broadcasting a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming.
Streaming
A beam or ray of light.
Broadcast
A signal, message, or audio or video program that is broadcast over a communication network
Watched the morning news broadcast.
Streaming
Chiefly British A course of study to which students are tracked.
Broadcast
The act of scattering seed.
Streaming
(Computers) A steady flow of data.
Broadcast
Communicated or transmitted by means of broadcasting, as over a communications network
A broadcast announcement.
Streaming
To flow in a stream or current.
Broadcast
Of or relating to the broadcasting of audio or video content over communication networks, as in television or radio.
Streaming
To pour forth or give off a stream; flow
My eyes were streaming with tears.
Broadcast
Widely known.
Streaming
To move or arrive in large numbers; pour
Traffic was streaming by. Fan mail streamed in.
Broadcast
Scattered over a wide area.
Streaming
To extend, wave, or float outward
The banner streamed in the breeze.
Broadcast
In a scattered manner.
Streaming
To leave a continuous trail of light.
Broadcast
Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
The seed was broadcast, not drilled.
Streaming
To give forth a continuous stream of light rays or beams; shine.
Broadcast
Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
Streaming
To emit, discharge, or exude (a body fluid, for example).
Broadcast
Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.
Streaming
(Computers) To transmit or receive (audio or video content), especially over the internet, in small, sequential packets that permit the content to be played continuously as it is being received and without saving it to a hard disk.
Broadcast
Widely in all directions; abroad.
Streaming
Flowing or moving in continuous succession, like fluid in a stream.
Broadcast
By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
Streaming
Present participle of stream
Broadcast
A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
Streaming
Movement as a stream.
Broadcast
A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
Streaming
(computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.
Broadcast
The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
Streaming
Division of classes into academic streams.
Broadcast
(transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
Streaming
The working of alluvial deposits to get ore.
Broadcast
(transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
Streaming
Sending forth streams.
Broadcast
(intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
Streaming
The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
Broadcast
To sow seeds over a wide area.
Streaming
The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.
Broadcast
A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
Streaming
The rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; - called also protoplasmic streaming.
Broadcast
An act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; - usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.
Streaming
The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
Broadcast
Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
Streaming
Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts;
His streaming face
Her streaming eyes
Broadcast
Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); - opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
Streaming
Moving smoothly and continuously;
Crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets
Fan streaming into the concert hall
Broadcast
So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.
Streaming
(of liquids) moving freely;
A flowing brook
Broadcast
To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.
Broadcast
To transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.
Broadcast
To disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.
Broadcast
To spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.
Broadcast
Message that is transmitted by radio or television
Broadcast
A radio or television show;
Did you see his program last night?
Broadcast
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;
We cannot air this X-rated song
Broadcast
Sow over a wide area, especially by hand;
Broadcast seeds
Broadcast
Cause to become widely known;
Spread information
Circulate a rumor
Broadcast the news
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