String vs. Stream — What's the Difference?

Material made of drawn-out, twisted fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface water, subsurface water and groundwater.

A strand or cord of such material.

A small, narrow river

A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.

A continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas

Strings The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments, especially violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

A continuous flow of data or instructions, typically one having a constant or predictable rate.

Strings Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.

A group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.

Something resembling a string or appearing as a long, thin line

(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction

A plant fiber.

Transmit or receive (data, especially video and audio material) over the Internet as a steady, continuous flow.

(Physics) One of the extremely minute objects that form the basis of string theory.

Put (schoolchildren) in groups of the same age and ability to be taught together.

A set of objects threaded together or attached on a string

A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.

A number of objects arranged in a line

A steady current in such a flow of water.

(Computers) A set of consecutive characters.

A steady current of a fluid.

A series of similar or related acts, events, or items

A large amount or number moving or occurring in steady succession

A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.

A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history.

A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management

A beam or ray of light.

A group of players ranked according to ability within a team

Chiefly British A course of study to which students are tracked.

A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.

(Computers) A steady flow of data.

A stringboard.

To flow in a stream or current.

A stringcourse.

To pour forth or give off a stream; flow

(Games) The balk line in billiards.

To move or arrive in large numbers; pour

(Informal) A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural

To extend, wave, or float outward

To fit or furnish with strings or a string

To leave a continuous trail of light.

To stretch out or extend

To give forth a continuous stream of light rays or beams; shine.

To thread on a string

To emit, discharge, or exude (a body fluid, for example).

To arrange in a line or series

(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.

To fasten, tie, or hang with a string or strings

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

To strip (vegetables) of fibers.

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

To extend or progress in a string, line, or succession

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

All moving waters.

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

(countable) A thread

(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

A division of a school year by perceived ability.

(musical instrument) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.

A live stream.

(sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.

(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

(intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

(transitive) To discharge in a stream.

(countable) A series of items or events.

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

(countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.

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.

(countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

A beam or ray of light.

(collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.

Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.

An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.

A stringed instrument.

Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

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.

The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.

To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

(slang) Cannabis or marijuana.

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

(billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.

To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

The points made in a game of billiards.

To unfurl.

The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.

A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

A steady flow (usually from natural causes);

(archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind;

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

Exude profusely;

(architecture) A stringcourse.

Move in large numbers;

A hoax; a fake story.

Rain heavily;

Synonym of stable

Flow freely and abundantly;

(oil drilling) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.

(transitive) To put (items) on a string.

(transitive) To put strings on (something).

(intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.

(birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.

The line or cord of a bow.

A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.

A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

Same as Stringcourse.

The points made in a game.

In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.

The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; - called also string line.

A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.

A sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.

A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory.

To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

To make tense; to strengthen.

To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.

To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

A lightweight cord

Stringed instruments that are played with a bow;

A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed

A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding;

A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)

A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening;

A collection of objects threaded on a single strand

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

Thread on or as if on a string;

Add as if on a string;

Move or come along

Stretch out or arrange like a string

String together; tie or fasten with a string;

Remove the stringy parts of;

Provide with strings;