Streamline

Streamline is a word that is often used by business people when pretending that they are saying something important, but in fact just saying empty words that sounds good. Such words are streamline and dynamic.

Example:

We need to streamline our internal routines!

Streamline may refer to:

• Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines, in fluid flows
• Streamline Airlines
  • Streamliner, any vehicle shaped to be less resistant to air
• 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 Ltd, the company responsible for making the Burney car
• Streamline Distributed Debugging Tool, a debugger produced by Allinea primarily for debugging parallel programs
• 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

Music

• Streamline (band), a band featuring Brian Ireland of Something Corporate
• Streamline (Lenny White album), 1977
• Streamline (Lee Greenwood album), 1985
• "Streamline" (song), a song by Spanish Makina band called Newton
• "Streamline" (System of a Down song)
• "Streamline", a song by Pendulum, from the 2005 album Hold Your Colour
• "Streamline", a song by From Autumn to Ashes, from the 2005 album Abandon Your Friends

See also

• Drag (physics)
• Process optimization
• Optimization (computer science)
• Rightsizing
• Streamlining the cities