Crossword clues for streamline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
streamline \stream"line\, v. t.
to design or modify so as to present the least possible resistance to fluid flow; -- used mostly of vehicles, such as automobiles, airplanes, or ships.
[Fig.] to change so as to make more efficient; -- used especially of organizations, procedures, or methods. ``The streamlined company became a formidable competitor.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1913, "give a streamline form to," from streamline (n.). From 1936 in the extended sense of "simplify and organize." Related: Streamlined; streamlining.
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. 1 (context transitive English) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid. 2 (context transitive by extension English) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency. 3 (context transitive English) To modernise.
WordNet
v. contour economically or efficiently
Wikipedia
"Streamline" is a song composed by Spanish band Newton. It was released in 1994 and its style is Makina. When the song was released, it was only famous in Spain and some Latin American countries like Mexico. However, in 2006 this song was featured on a Pepsi commercial featuring Jimmy Fallon, leading to some fame in the US as well. The original length of the song was 5:05, but was shortened to fit the 30-second commercial. SPG Music re-released the song on July 10, 2006.
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 pushing off a pool wall
- Adobe Streamline, a discontinued line tracing program made by Adobe Systems
- Streamline Cars, the company responsible for making the Burney car
- Streamline Moderne, an architectural style related to Art Deco
- Streamline Pictures, an American distribution company best known for distributing English dubbed Japanese animation
- Streamline Studios, an independent Dutch outsourcing and game developing studio
- Hal Roach's Streamliners, a series of short films made in the 1940s
- Streamline (comics), a fictional super-hero character
Streamline form is a swimming technique that is used underwater in every stroke. At the start of a race or on a turn, streamline form is used, usually along with a dolphin kick or flutter kick, to create the least amount of resistance to help the swimmer propel as far as they can. Many factors contribute to the perfect streamline form and mastering this method increases a swimmer’s speed. Streamline is one of the key fundamentals to mastering any stroke.
Streamline is the fourth studio album by drummer Lenny White, released in 1978 through Elektra Records and reissued in 2002 through Wounded Bird Records. The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Streamline' is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Lee Greenwood, released in 1985. It was number one on US Country charts.
Streamline is a British Golden Age superhero comic, which appeared in the short-lived magazine Streamline Comics (1947), which only ran for four issues. The character was co-created by Denis Gifford and Bob Monkhouse, and later appeared as a character in the 2000 AD strip Zenith and the independent title Black Tower Comics Group Adventures.
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.