Stream

Stream

A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill (occasionally ghyll), kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or runnel.

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Famous quotes containing the word stream:

    “Is there not
    An art, a music, and a stream of words
    That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Man is in part divine,
    A troubled stream from a pure source;
    And Man in portions can foresee
    His own funereal destiny;”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)