streamer

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
   • Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)
   • 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.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 26

   Synonyms:

   banderole

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
   • […] 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.2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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.
   • 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.2004, Cevdet Aykanat, Tugrul Dayar, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, page 157
6. (Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
   • For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 01 Nov 2022
   • 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.”2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
7. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
   • Most streamers are on Twitch
   • There was perhaps no group of creators more prepared for the horrors of 2020 than streamers. Sitting in front of their cameras, often alone, talking for hours to the camera is what they do, and many are excellent at it.2020 December 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
8. In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
   • Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]2019, James W. White, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, page 253
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.
    • While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.1888, James Russell Lowell, Heartsease and Rue
    • The moon was indeed at the full, and the northern streamers were shining brilliantly.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC
11. (UK, in-compounds) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
    • Since he also demonstrated that the A-streamers in his sample showed enhancement of measured intelligence over their primary school careers while the B-streamers showed deterioration, it can be seen what a far-reaching effect such decisions may have had upon child performance.1984, Anthony Gale, Antony J. Chapman, Psychology and Social Problems, page 82