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Streamer

//ˈstɹiːmɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a long flag; often tapering wordnet
  5. 5
    A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
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  1. 6
    a newspaper headline that runs across the full page wordnet
  2. 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.
  3. 8
    light that streams wordnet
  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. 11
    A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience. Internet

    "Most streamers are on Twitch"

  7. 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, […]"

  8. 13
    One who searches for stream tin.
  9. 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."

  10. 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."

Etymology

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

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