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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
streamer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
▪ Even a long crêpe streamer will straighten a spinning kite.
▪ The male has two long tail streamers, and females prefer the males with the longest streamers.
▪ Smoke trailed in long streamers drifting off to the west.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Paper streamers like coiled fuses were scattered between the plates and wine bottles.
▪ Readily distinguished by rufous-buff rump and chestnut nape; no white spots in tail streamers.
▪ The male has two long tail streamers, and females prefer the males with the longest streamers.
▪ The reconnection is very similar to that described above for the helmet streamer, although time and size scales are smaller.
▪ They put up streamers and got hats and baked a couple of cakes.
▪ Treswell was probably an arms painter, for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies.
▪ We were cutting off from each other, streamer by streamer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Streamer

Streamer \Stream"er\, n. 1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.

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

3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
--Macaulay.

While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
--Lowell.

3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.

4. (Journalism) a banner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
streamer

"flag that streams in the air," late 13c., agent noun from stream (v.).

Wiktionary
streamer

n. 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 across the entire page. 4 (lb en heading) ''Of computing.'' 5 #A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape. 6 #Any mechanism for stream#Verbing data. 7 (lb en fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow. 8 (lb en mining) One who searches for stream tin. 9 A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

WordNet
streamer

  1. n. light that streams; "streamers of flames"

  2. a newspaper headline that runs across the full page [syn: banner]

  3. a long flag; often tapering [syn: pennant, pennon, waft]

  4. long strip of cloth for decoration or advertising [syn: banner]

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Wikipedia
Streamer

__NOTOC__ Streamer or streamers may refer to:

  • Pennon, a small pointed flag
  • Campaign streamer, flag used by military units
  • Streamer, a kind of confetti consisting of strips of paper or other material.
  • Positive streamer, lightning bolt
  • Someone who creates streaming media such as live-streams.
  • Streamer moth, the geometer moth Anticlea derivata
  • Wingtip streamer, tubes of circulating air left behind a wing, also called wingtip vortices
  • Streamer Bass, a bass guitar produced by the German Warwick company
  • Streamer discharge, a type of electrical discharge
  • Streamer, a common name for a Lake-effect snow band
Streamer (software)

Streamer is a radiative transfer code (Key and Schweiger, 1988) to calculate radiances (intensities) or irradiances in the atmosphere.

The code uses N-stream approximation to the radiative transfer equations (Stamnes et al. 1988) and allows for flexible choice of bands. The code can be used both for satellite radiance applications and estimates of heating rates in both cloudy and non-cloudy atmosphere. One can specify surface reflectivity. Streamer is written in FORTRAN.

Usage examples of "streamer".

One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway.

Horses and bicycles were outlawed, but there were wheelchairs galore with fox tails fluttering from the ends of makeshift wands and tinsel streamers bedizening their chrome utility.

The coffin of the Countess was put to rest there until the buriers should come to bury it in the morning, the wreaths and flowers and streamers were laid over it, the priest sprinkled it again with holy water, and then the funeral was at an end.

Festooned with a brave display of heraldry, she flew a pennoncel at the masthead, the standard of Eldaraigne at the forecastle, four other banners aft, including the yellow ensign of the Merchant Service, and streamers, thirty yards long, charged with yellow dragons, blue lozenges, and white birds.

A mellow sea-breeze came cantering out of the west to lift among the sails the Royal Heraldry of the pennoncels and the long ribbons of streamers, the gay banners and the swallow-tailed gittons, laying them straight along its flowing mane.

The brightly colored streamers flying from their pitot tubes lent them a strange, almost festive appearance.

The brightly coloured streamers flying from their pitot tubes lent them a strange, almost festive appearance.

The prowler skin lashings held but the canvas and blankets were ripped into streamers that cracked like rifle shots in the wind before they were torn completely loose and flung into the night.

Manatassi ordered it quenched with water from the pool, and once again they stared into the dark passage from which wisps and streamers of smoke still drifted.

They were in shore-going rig - wide-brimmed white sennit hats, Watchetblue jackets with brass buttons, black silk neckerchiefs, white duck trousers and very small shoes - but with no ribbons in the seams or coloured streamers: a sober finery.

Many of them trailed swirling black streamers of earth and yellow motes, which were agricultural robots plummeting vertically through the swarm, while military drift-ships hovered outside it against a brilliant background of sunlit ocean, monolithic clouds, and the seriate towers along the coast.

I have to use my field generators to create a sunspot underneath you as you descend, a cooler area, with a helmet streamer to create a flow of cooler plasma, a stream the Phoenix can follow to come down here to my dock.

With a grunt of satisfaction, he took from his belt a sharp stake with a bright streamer of cloth at the unpointed end.

Like an untethered kite, this way and that, trailing streamers of blood.

Multi-spectrum photon amps tracked the tormented streamers of cloud as they streaked towards England, building in power, in velocity.