Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a 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; a tape drive.
5. (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
6. (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
7. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
8. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.

Example Sentences

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

A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.

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

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 mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

[…] from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.

However, integration of a bandwidth estimation algorithm into an adaptive video streamer is not an easy task. Firstly, bandwidth estimation requires sending extra burst packets that brings a considerable overhead into the system.

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

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.”

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