Streamer

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmÉ™(ɹ)

Full definition of streamer

Noun

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
• DrydenBrave Rupert from afar appears,
  Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.
• 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 5, 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. (computing) Any mechanism for streaming data.a video streamer
6. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
7. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
8. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
• James LowellWhile overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.

Anagrams

• masterer, remaster