Stream vs. Burn

Stream and Burn Definitions
Stream
A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
Burn
To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel
The dry wood burned quickly.
Stream
A steady current in such a flow of water.
Burn
To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent
A house that burned to the ground.
Eggs that burned and stuck to the pan.
Stream
A steady current of a fluid.
Burn
To consume fuel
A rocket stage designed to burn for three minutes before being jettisoned.
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Stream
A large amount or number moving or occurring in steady succession
A stream of commuters.
A stream of insults.
Burn
To emit heat or light by fire or energy
Campfires burning in the dark.
Lights burning in the windows.
Stream
A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history.
Burn
To become dissipated or be dispelled
The fog burned off as the sun came up. Their anger burned away in time.
Stream
A beam or ray of light.
Burn
To suffer death or punishment by fire
Souls burning in hell.
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Stream
Chiefly British A course of study to which students are tracked.
Burn
To be electrocuted.
Stream
(Computers) A steady flow of data.
Burn
To be very hot; bake
A desert burning under the midday sun.
Stream
To flow in a stream or current.
Burn
To feel or look hot
A child burning with fever.
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Stream
To pour forth or give off a stream; flow
My eyes were streaming with tears.
Burn
To impart a sensation of heat
A liniment that burns when first applied.
Stream
To move or arrive in large numbers; pour
Traffic was streaming by. Fan mail streamed in.
Burn
To penetrate something by intense heat, energy, or caustic effect
The acid burned into the table.
Stream
To extend, wave, or float outward
The banner streamed in the breeze.
Burn
To cause a strong impression, especially by emotional intensity
A look that burned into them.
Shame burning into my heart.
Stream
To leave a continuous trail of light.
Burn
To become irritated or painful, as by chafing or inflammation
Eyes burning from the smoke.
Stream
To give forth a continuous stream of light rays or beams; shine.
Burn
To become sunburned or windburned.
Stream
To emit, discharge, or exude (a body fluid, for example).
Burn
To be or become angry
An insult that really made me burn.
Stream
(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.
Burn
To be very eager
Was burning with ambition.
Stream
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
Burn
To cause to undergo combustion, especially to the point of destruction
We burned the scrap wood in the fireplace.
Stream
A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
Burn
To consume (fuel or energy, for example)
Burned all the wood that winter.
Stream
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
Burn
To use as a fuel
A furnace that burns coal.
Stream
All moving waters.
Burn
To metabolize (glucose, for example) in the body.
Stream
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
Burn
To damage or injure by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent
Burned the toast.
Burned my skin with the acid.
Stream
(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
Burn
To make or produce by fire or heat
Burn a hole in the rug.
Stream
A division of a school year by perceived ability.
All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.
Burn
To dispel or dissipate, as by heat
The sun burned off the fog. Resentments that burned away their tender feelings.
Stream
A live stream.
Burn
To execute or kill with fire
Burning heretics at the stake.
Stream
(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
Burn
To execute by electrocution.
Stream
(intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
A flag streams in the wind.
Burn
To irritate or inflame, as by chafing or sunburn.
Stream
(transitive) To discharge in a stream.
The soldier's wound was streaming blood.
Burn
To impart a sensation of intense heat to
The chili burned my mouth.
Stream
(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
Burn
To make angry
What really burns me is his arrogance.
Stream
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.
Burn
To brand (an animal).
Stream
A beam or ray of light.
Burn
To engrave or make indelible by burning
Burned his initials into the wood.
Stream
Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
Burn
To cause to be felt or remembered because of emotional intensity
The image of the accident was burned into my memory.
Stream
A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
Burn
To harden or impart a finish to by subjecting to intense heat; fire
Burn clay pots in a kiln.
Stream
Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
Burn
To defeat in a contest, especially by a narrow margin.
Stream
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.
Beneath those banks where rivers stream.
Burn
(Sports) To outplay or score on (an opponent), especially through quick or deceptive movement.
Stream
To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
A thousand suns will stream on thee.
Burn
To inflict harm or hardship on; hurt
"Huge loan losses have burned banks in recent years" (Christian Science Monitor).
Stream
To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
Burn
To swindle or deceive; cheat
We really got burned on the used car we bought.
Stream
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
Burn
To write data onto (an optical disc).
Stream
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
It may so please that she at length will streamSome dew of grace into my withered heart.
Burn
To write (data) onto an optical disc.
Stream
To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.
Burn
An injury produced by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent.
Stream
To unfurl.
Burn
A burned place or area
A cigarette burn in the tablecloth.
Stream
A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
Burn
An act, process, or result of burning
The fire settled down to a steady burn.
Stream
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
Burn
A sensation of intense heat, stinging pain, or irritation
A chili burn on the tongue.
The burn of alcohol on an open wound.
Stream
A steady flow (usually from natural causes);
The raft floated downstream on the current
He felt a stream of air
Burn
A sunburn or windburn.
Stream
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Burn
A small stream; a brook.
Stream
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
Burn
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
Stream
To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind;
Their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind
Burn
A sensation resembling such an injury.
Chili burn from eating hot peppers
Stream
Exude profusely;
She was streaming with sweat
His nose streamed blood
Burn
The act of burning something with fire.
They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
Stream
Move in large numbers;
People were pouring out of the theater
Beggars pullulated in the plaza
Burn
(slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
Stream
Rain heavily;
Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
Burn
(slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn excellent or badass insult.
Stream
Flow freely and abundantly;
Tears streamed down her face
Burn
Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
Burn
Tobacco.
Burn
(computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
Burn
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
They have a good burn.
Burn
(uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
Burn
(aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
Burn
Stream A stream.
Burn
(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
Burn
(intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
He watched the house burn.
Burn
(transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
Burn
(intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
Burn
(transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
To burn a hole;
To burn letters into a block
Burn
(transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
Burn
To cauterize.
Burn
(ambitransitive) To sunburn.
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
Burn
(transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
To burn the mouth with pepper
Burn
(intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
The child's forehead was burning with fever.
Her cheeks burned with shame.
Burn
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.
To burn iron in oxygen
Burn
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Copper burns in chlorine.
Burn
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
Burn
To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
Burn
To betray.
The informant burned him.
Burn
To insult or defeat.
I just burned you again.
Burn
(transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
We have an hour to burn.
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
Burn
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
Burn
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
Burn
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
Burn
(photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
Burn
To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
Burn
To discard.
Burn
To shoot someone with a firearm.
Burn
To compromise (an agent's cover story).
Burn
To blackmail.
Burn
To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; - frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
Burn
To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
Burn
To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
Burn
To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
Burn
To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ass as fire.
Burn
To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
Burn
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
Burn
To be of fire; to flame.
Burn
To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
Your meat doth burn, quoth I.
Burn
To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,Burned on the water.
Burning with high hope.
The groan still deepens, and the combat burns.
The parching airBurns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Burn
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
Burn
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
Burn
A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
Burn
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
Burn
A small stream.
Burn
Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
Burn
A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
Burn
An injury cause by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
Burn
A burned place or area
Burn
Damage inflicted by burning
Burn
Destroy by fire;
They burned the house and his diaries
Burn
Shine intensely, as if with heat;
The coals were glowing in the dark
The candles were burning
Burn
Undergo combustion;
Maple wood burns well
Burn
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
The sun burned his face
Burn
Cause to burn or combust;
The sun burned off the fog
We combust coal and other fossil fuels
Burn
Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion;
She was burning with anger
He was burning to try out his new skies
Burn
Cause to undergo combustion;
Burn garbage
The car burns only Diesel oil
Burn
Burn at the stake;
Witches were burned in Salem
Burn
Spend (significant amounts of money);
He has money to burn
Burn
Feel hot or painful;
My eyes are burning
Burn
Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent;
The surgeon cauterized the wart
Burn
Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
Burn
Create by duplicating data;
Cut a disk
Burn a CD
Burn
Use up (energy);
Burn off calories through vigorous exercise
Burn
Burn with heat, fire, or radiation;
The iron burnt a hole in my dress