streamer

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

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

     Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.

   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 5, The Younger Set^[1]:

     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 rose-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees ; … .

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. A newspaper headline that runs across the entire 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.
5. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
6. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
7. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
   • James Lowell

     While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Macaulay to this entry?)

Translations

long narrow flag

• Swedish: vimpel (sv) c, serpentin (sv) c

newspaper headline that runs across the entire page

data storage system

variety of wet fly in fly fishing

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Translations to be checked

• French: fanion (fr) m

• Spanish: serpentina (es) f

See also

• stream

Anagrams

• masterer, remaster