"live stream" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlaɪv ˈstɹiːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-live stream.wav [Southern-England] Forms: live streams [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} live stream (plural live streams)
  1. A real-time broadcast of audio or video over the Internet. Synonyms: stream, livestream Translations (Internet broadcast): بَثّ مُبَاشِر (baṯṯ mubāšir) [masculine] (Arabic), стрым (strym) [masculine] (Belarusian), стрийм (strijm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 直播 (zik⁶ bo³) (Chinese Cantonese), 直播 (zhíbō) (Chinese Mandarin), tujelsendo (Esperanto), suoralähetys (Finnish), verkkolähetys (Finnish), striimi (Finnish), livestriimi (Finnish), suoranauhoitus (Finnish), diffusion en direct [feminine] (French), live [masculine] (French), Livestream [masculine] (German), ζωντανή ροοθήκευση (zontaní roothíkefsi) [feminine] (Greek), élő közvetítés (Hungarian), پَخْشِ زِنْدِه (paxš-e zende) (Iranian Persian), لایْو (lâyv) (Iranian Persian), ライブストリーム (raibu sutorīmu) (Japanese), ストリーム (sutorīmu) (Japanese), 直播 (alt: ちょくはん, chokuhan; じかまき, jikamaki; じきまき, jikimaki) (Japanese), ライブ (raibu) (Japanese), 스트림 (seuteurim) (Korean), 라이브 스트림 (raibeu seuteurim) (Korean), 직파 (jikpa) (alt: 直播) (Korean), 라이브 (raibeu) (Korean), direto [masculine] (Portuguese), livestream [masculine] (Portuguese), stream [masculine] (Portuguese), стрим (strim) [masculine, neologism] (Russian), пряма́я трансля́ция (prjamája transljácija) [feminine] (Russian), directo (Spanish), emisión en directo [Spain] (Spanish), transmisión en vivo [Latin-America] (Spanish), streaming (Swedish), стрим (strym) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-live_stream-en-noun-ZpX29Ds4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19

Verb

IPA: /ˈlaɪv ˈstɹiːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-live stream.wav [Southern-England] Forms: live streams [present, singular, third-person], live streaming [participle, present], live streamed [participle, past], live streamed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} live stream (third-person singular simple present live streams, present participle live streaming, simple past and past participle live streamed)
  1. Alternative form of livestream Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: livestream Related terms: streaming
    Sense id: en-live_stream-en-verb-hRwFNHe4

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "Internet broadcast",
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "strym",
      "sense": "Internet broadcast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "стрим"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Livestreaming"
  ],
  "word": "live stream"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "live streams",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "live streaming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "live streamed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "live streamed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "live stream (third-person singular simple present live streams, present participle live streaming, simple past and past participle live streamed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "streaming"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
          "word": "livestream"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of livestream"
      ],
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        [
          "livestream",
          "livestream#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaɪv ˈstɹiːm/"
    },
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-live_stream.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-live_stream.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-live_stream.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-live_stream.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Livestreaming"
  ],
  "word": "live stream"
}

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