Streamer

Quick meaning: Streamer is a noun meaning A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
2. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
3. (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
4. (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
5. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
6. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

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

So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, […]

For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

Word Forms

• streamers

Synonyms for streamer

Depending on context, synonyms include banderole, waft, pennon, banner, pennant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pennon, banner, pennant, waft, banderole, wimple.

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