Word Meanings - DOWNSTREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Related words: (words related to DOWNSTREAM)

• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• FLOATABLE
  That may be floated.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• DOWNSTREAM
  Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
• FLOATY
  Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.
• FLOATINGLY
  In a floating manner.
• FLOATAGE
  See FLOTAGE
• STREAMINESS
  The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
• STREAMY
  1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope.
• STREAM
  stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. sru. *174. Cf. Catarrh, 1. A current water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as
• FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
  A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.
• FLOATING
  1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
• FLOATER
  1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
• STREAMING
  Sending forth streams.
• FLOAT
  A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer.
• STREAMFUL
  Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• REFLOAT
  Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• AFLOAT
  1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs