streamer
English
Etymology
From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Noun
streamer (plural streamers)
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
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- Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.
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- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
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- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
- (heading) In computing.
- A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
- Any mechanism for streaming data.
- a video streamer
- (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
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- While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
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Translations
long narrow flag
newspaper headline that runs across the entire page
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data storage system
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variety of wet fly in fly fishing
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