streamer
/ˈstɹiːmɚ/ noun B1- 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. · Most streamers are on Twitch
- In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
Plural streamers
From the library
The next morn broke off the coast of Aleria; all day they coasted, and in the evening saw fires lighted on land; the position of these was no doubt a signal for landing, for a ship’s lantern was hung up at the mast-head instead of the streamer, and they came to within a gunshot of the shore.
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