streamer

Meanings

Plural: streamers

Noun

• light that streams
  • "streamers of flames"
• a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
• a long flag; often tapering
• long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
• A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
• Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
• A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
• 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.
• Any mechanism for streaming data.
• A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
• A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
• In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
• 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.
• A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).

Synonyms

banderole, banner, pennant, pennon, waft

Related Words

stream