streamer

Meaning

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
4. 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. Any mechanism for streaming data.
6. A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
7. A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
8. In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
9. 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. A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).

Synonyms

banner

pennant

flag

pennon

streaming tape drive

waft

decorations

eel

ensign

flute

🪈

headline

pendant

ribbon

🎀

sign

slogan

streamline

title

towing rope

tow line

buntings

long thin loaf

skinny person

tall champagne glass

luminous streak

seismic cable

pennoncel

pennoncelle

penoncel

towing hawser

coronal ray

standard

haulage rope

aurora

banderole

blow-out

catchword

colors

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstɹiːmɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stremer

In summary

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

Sentences

The streamer of gas came out towards us .