1. Remove unnecessary steps or complications so something works more efficiently.
2. Give something a shape that reduces resistance as air or liquid moves around it.
3. A line that follows the direction of fluid flow at each point at a particular instant.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- streamline procedures
- streamline a process
On the page
The team streamlined procedures while retaining independent checks.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- streamline
- Past tense
- streamlined
- Past participle
- streamlined
- Present participle
- streamlining
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- streamline
- Present continuous
- am/is/are streamlining
- Present perfect
- have/has streamlined
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been streamlining
- Past
- streamlined
- Past continuous
- was/were streamlining
- Past perfect
- had streamlined
- Past perfect continuous
- had been streamlining
- Future
- will streamline
- Future continuous
- will be streamlining
- Future perfect
- will have streamlined
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been streamlining
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: streamline; streamlines; streamlined; streamlined; streamlining; noun singular streamline, plural streamlines Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: streamlines.
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