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streamer

English edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɹiːmɚ/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun edit

streamer (plural streamers)

  1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
    • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
      Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.
    • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎[1]:
      Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, […]
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
      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.
  2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
  3. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
  4. (computing) 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.
  5. (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
    • 2004, Cevdet Aykanat, Tugrul Dayar, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, page 157:
      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.
  6. (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
    Coordinate term: broadcaster
    • 2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic‎[2], retrieved 2022-11-01:
      For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.
  7. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
    Hypernym: creator
    Most streamers are on Twitch
    • 2020 December 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN:
      There was perhaps no group of creators more prepared for the horrors of 2020 than streamers. Sitting in front of their cameras, often alone, talking for hours to the camera is what they do, and many are excellent at it.
  8. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
  9. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
  10. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
  11. (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
    • 1984, Anthony Gale, Antony J. Chapman, Psychology and Social Problems, page 82:
      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.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

newspaper headline that runs across the entire page

See also edit

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

French edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from English streamer.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

streamer m (plural streamers)

  1. (Internet) streamer (one who streams to a live audience online)
    Alternative form: streameur
  2. (computing) streamer (data storage system)
  3. (fishing) streamer (variety of wet fly in fly fishing)

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English stream (verb).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

streamer

  1. (transitive, Internet) to stream (to push continuous data from a server to a client computer while it is being used)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of streamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple streamer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple streamant
/stʁi.mɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle streamé
/stʁi.me/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present streame
/stʁim/ 		streames
/stʁim/ 		streame
/stʁim/ 		streamons
/stʁi.mɔ̃/ 		streamez
/stʁi.me/ 		streament
/stʁim/
imperfect streamais
/stʁi.mɛ/ 		streamais
/stʁi.mɛ/ 		streamait
/stʁi.mɛ/ 		streamions
/stʁi.mjɔ̃/ 		streamiez
/stʁi.mje/ 		streamaient
/stʁi.mɛ/
past historic2 streamai
/stʁi.me/ 		streamas
/stʁi.ma/ 		streama
/stʁi.ma/ 		streamâmes
/stʁi.mam/ 		streamâtes
/stʁi.mat/ 		streamèrent
/stʁi.mɛʁ/
future streamerai
/stʁim.ʁe/ 		streameras
/stʁim.ʁa/ 		streamera
/stʁim.ʁa/ 		streamerons
/stʁim.ʁɔ̃/ 		streamerez
/stʁim.ʁe/ 		streameront
/stʁim.ʁɔ̃/
conditional streamerais
/stʁim.ʁɛ/ 		streamerais
/stʁim.ʁɛ/ 		streamerait
/stʁim.ʁɛ/ 		streamerions
/stʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		streameriez
/stʁi.mə.ʁje/ 		streameraient
/stʁim.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present streame
/stʁim/ 		streames
/stʁim/ 		streame
/stʁim/ 		streamions
/stʁi.mjɔ̃/ 		streamiez
/stʁi.mje/ 		streament
/stʁim/
imperfect2 streamasse
/stʁi.mas/ 		streamasses
/stʁi.mas/ 		streamât
/stʁi.ma/ 		streamassions
/stʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ 		streamassiez
/stʁi.ma.sje/ 		streamassent
/stʁi.mas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — streame
/stʁim/ 		— streamons
/stʁi.mɔ̃/ 		streamez
/stʁi.me/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Hypernyms edit

Spanish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English streamer.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɾimeɾ/ [ˈst̪ɾi.meɾ]
  • IPA(key): (adapted) /esˈtɾimeɾ/ [esˈt̪ɾi.meɾ]

Noun edit

streamer m or f by sense (plural streamers)

  1. (Internet) streamer (a person who streams on the Internet)

Usage notes edit

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

See also edit

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