What is the difference between a stream and a reader in Java?

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Hi,

Today I got this question for which I think I answered very bad. I said stream is a data that flows and reader is a technique where we read from that is a static data. I know this is an awful answer, so please provide me the crisp difference and definitions between these two with example in Java.

Thanks.

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