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streamstyle

streamstyle verb: to give something a streamlined style.

Verb

streamstyle (third-person singular simple present streamstyles, present participle streamstyling, simple past and past participle streamstyled)

  1. (uncommon) to give something a streamlined style.
    • Streamstyled in the manner of the Hudsons, these lightweights were unusually capable for their size.1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 113, referring to Canadian Pacific 4-4-4s
    • And then there's Rutland, so far behind the others in motive power that it was obliged to streamstyle a 1911 2-8-0 with Stephenson gear when its Whippet hotshot was introduced in 1938.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 11

Forms of streamstyle

third-person singular presentstreamstyles
present participlestreamstyling
past participlestreamstyled
paststreamstyled

Origin of streamstyle

From stream + style.

Questions about streamstyle

What does streamstyle mean?
Streamstyle means to give something a streamlined style.
What part of speech is streamstyle?
Streamstyle is a verb.
What is the past tense of streamstyle?
The past tense of streamstyle is streamstyled.

Words near streamstyle in the dictionary

  1. streamscape
  2. streamscapes
  3. streamside
  4. streamsides
  5. Streamstown
  6. streamstyle
  7. streamstyled
  8. streamstyles
  9. streamstyling
  10. streamsurface
  11. streamsurfaces

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