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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outstream en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + stream.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To stream outward.
    • If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot. 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:

Forms

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outstreamed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outstreamed Tense=Past lexicographic
outstreams Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outstreaming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic