Triage vs. Streaming: What's the Difference?
Triage and Streaming Definitions
Triage
A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.
Streaming
A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
Triage
A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.
Streaming
A steady current in such a flow of water.
Triage
A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority
"For millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry" (Jill Smolowe).
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Streaming
A steady current of a fluid.
Triage
To sort or allocate by triage
Triaged the patients according to their symptoms.
Streaming
A large amount or number moving or occurring in steady succession
A stream of commuters.
A stream of insults.
Triage
Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
Streaming
A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history.
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Triage
(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
Streaming
A beam or ray of light.
Triage
The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
Streaming
Chiefly British A course of study to which students are tracked.
Triage
That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
Streaming
(Computers) A steady flow of data.
Triage
A marshalling yard, classification yard.
Streaming
To flow in a stream or current.
Triage
To subject to triage; to prioritize.
Streaming
To pour forth or give off a stream; flow
My eyes were streaming with tears.
Triage
Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
Streaming
To move or arrive in large numbers; pour
Traffic was streaming by. Fan mail streamed in.
Streaming
To extend, wave, or float outward
The banner streamed in the breeze.
Streaming
To leave a continuous trail of light.
Streaming
To give forth a continuous stream of light rays or beams; shine.
Streaming
To emit, discharge, or exude (a body fluid, for example).
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.
Streaming
Flowing or moving in continuous succession, like fluid in a stream.
Streaming
Present participle of stream
Streaming
Movement as a stream.
Streaming
(computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.
Streaming
Division of classes into academic streams.
Streaming
The working of alluvial deposits to get ore.
Streaming
Sending forth streams.
Streaming
The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
Streaming
The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.
Streaming
The rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; - called also protoplasmic streaming.
Streaming
The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
Streaming
Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts;
His streaming face
Her streaming eyes
Streaming
Moving smoothly and continuously;
Crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets
Fan streaming into the concert hall
Streaming
(of liquids) moving freely;
A flowing brook