What does "streamer" mean?
A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
Streamer
/ˈstɹiːmɚ/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- Grammar: streamer is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: actinic ray, actinism, and blue, atomic beam.
- Useful contrasts: audience, bare surface, no decoration.
- Usage evidence: You can make a lot of money as a streamer, but it takes effort and a fair bit of luck.
How to use "streamer"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
"Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows."
- 2 long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising wordnet
- 3 Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
"[…] from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood."
- 4 a long flag; often tapering wordnet
- 5 A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
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- 6 a newspaper headline that runs across the full page wordnet
- 7 A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- 8 light that streams wordnet
- 9 Any mechanism for streaming data.
"However, integration of a bandwidth estimation algorithm into an adaptive video streamer is not an easy task. Firstly, bandwidth estimation requires sending extra burst packets that brings a considerable overhead into the system."
- 10 A subscription service that streams content to an audience. Internet
"For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different."
- 11 A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience. Internet
"Most streamers are on Twitch"
- 12 In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
"Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]"
- 13 One who searches for stream tin.
- 14 A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
"While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot."
- 15 A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability). UK, in-compounds
"Since he also demonstrated that the A-streamers in his sample showed enhancement of measured intelligence over their primary school careers while the B-streamers showed deterioration, it can be seen what a far-reaching effect such decisions may have had upon child performance."
Synonyms
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Example
"You can make a lot of money as a streamer, but it takes effort and a fair bit of luck."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "streamer"?
Common synonyms include: actinic ray, actinism, and blue, atomic beam, atomic ray, banderole.
How do you use "streamer" in a sentence?
You can make a lot of money as a streamer, but it takes effort and a fair bit of luck.
How do you pronounce "streamer"?
Pronounced /ˈstɹiːmɚ/.
Etymology
From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.