streamer
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹiːmɚ/
The English word “streamer” has 11 meanings listed here.
noun
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- 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.
- Any mechanism for streaming data.
- A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
- A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- One who searches for stream tin.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
Etymology
From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.
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