streamed

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of stream.

   Sunlight streamed through the open curtains and woke her early.

   The festival was streamed to viewers in over forty countries.

   Note

   One regular -ed form does two jobs: the simple past (rain streamed down the glass) and the participle after have or be. Which auxiliaries fit depends on the meaning. The flowing and fluttering senses are intransitive, so they build perfects with have but no passive: tears had streamed down her face. The transmitting senses are transitive, so they also form passives: the match was streamed live.

2. 2
   adjectiveUK

   Organized into separate classes or groups according to pupils' academic ability, as in a British school system.

   The school adopted a streamed structure, placing strong and struggling pupils in different sets.

   Critics argue that streamed classrooms can entrench early disadvantage.

   Similartracked, banded

   Oppositeunstreamed

   Note

   A British schoolroom term: pupils are sorted into streams by ability, and a school organized that way is streamed. The usual contrast is with mixed-ability teaching. Because it names an arrangement rather than a degree, it is not comparable. A school is streamed or it is not, never more streamed. It sits most naturally before a noun: a streamed system, streamed classes.

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