STREAMER

banner, streamer

(noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

pennant, pennon, streamer, waft

(noun) a long flag; often tapering

streamer, banner

(noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page

streamer

(noun) light that streams; “streamers of flames”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

(journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a 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.

(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.

Anagrams

• masterer, remaster, restream

Source: Wiktionary


Stream"er, n.

1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.

3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay. While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell.

3. (Mining)

Definition: A searcher for stream tin.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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