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streamline

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1868, "line drawn from point to point, so that its direction is everywhere that of the motion of the fluid" [Lamb, "Hydrodynamics," 1906], from stream (n.) + line (n.). The adjective is attested from 1898, "free from turbulence," 1907 in sense of "shaped ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Streamline may refer to: Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines , in fluid flows Streamliner , any vehicle shaped to be less resistant to air Streamline Air , American regional airline Streamline (swimming) , the position a swimmer takes underwater after ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. contour economically or efficiently

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow. 2 (context meteorology English) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind. vb. ...

Usage examples of streamline.

As we all witnessed during the anthrax scare last fall, we must improve and streamline our methods of communicating with the public.

But here in this shallow bay she could see clearly enough--see the flawless beauty of the mers and Silky, her companions, Their streamlined forms suspended by unseen hands.

Like its behavior, its body was optimized for a lifestyle dominated by inexorable predation, with long, powerful legs for instantaneous acceleration and a streamlined rib cage built around a tremendous set of lungs for sustained speed.

Another pair of appendages terminated in prehensile organs as efficient as human hands, and a double pair of silvery-gray, membranous wings were folded along the sides of his streamlined, insectile body.

White hair slicked back on a streamlined skull, tightly braided in a thick, slivery cable that hung all the way to the leather seat.

The long sweeping lines of the sides told a story of perfect streamlining, and implied high speed, even at rest.

It made this tremendous speed by streamlining and through sheer power.

The high freeboard, and streamlined shape, of the nuclear subs, makes it difficult to land from them, except to a properly constructed jetty or mother boat.

Marine Corps forces was innovative insofar as it required tight interservice cooperation and a streamlined command structure.

Though it was just past six-thirty, the lowriders were already jostling for position, chugging like streamlined locomotives.

Passing over them, seeming to pass almost through them in this strange perspectiveless view, were the shadowy forms of giant space liners, titanic streamlined hulls.

Its three petallike wings, transparent membranes through which Jameson saw shadowed supporting spines, were arranged helicopter-fashion around its stubby neck, and at the bottom of its streamlined body were three delicate clawed feet.

He remembered the tents pitched over the concrete foundations, the standing in line for chow with mess kits in the mud, he remembered the waiting on the ready line in the fleece padded shooting jackets made from old CKC blouses, the smell of burnt cordite and the ringing ears and the carbon sight blackeners that smudged up everything and the two or three privately owned BE slopes of the top notch shooters, he remembered all of it, the heavy clinking dull glittering unexpended cartridges in the hand, the long deadly streamline disappearing of a cartridge slipped into the chamber with the thumb when you were firing singles, the swinging white spot marking off the bulls and the big red flag rising from the pits three hundred yards away.

The only break in the streamline was the snoutlike projection of a steel turret that rose from the roof of the car midway between the hood and the rear bumper.

Since Streamlined, vets have been approving urine-soaked meat for consumers.