Meaning

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

    вы́мпелvýmpel, полоса́polosá

    long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

  2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

  3. A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

    ша́пкаšápka

    a newspaper headline that runs across the full 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.

    стри́мерstrímer

  5. Any mechanism for streaming data.

  6. (Internet)A subscription service that streams content to an audience.

    light that streams

  7. (Internet)A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.

    Most streamers are on Twitch

    Streamer

    стри́мерstrímer, стри́мершаstrímerša

  8. In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.

  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.

  11. (UK, in compounds)A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).

Examples

17 sentences
  1. Party streamers hanged from the ceiling.

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  2. Pauline was the most-viewed streamer this year.

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  3. This streamer was banned for violating our community rules.

    deDieser Streamer wurde wegen Verstoßes gegen unsere Community-Regeln gesperrt.

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  4. My favourite streamer turned out to be a milkshake duck.

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  5. The concept of a virtual streamer came out of Japan.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
long narrow flag:
newspaper headline that runs across the entire page:
data storage system:
a person who streams on the Internet:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a person who streams on the Internet:

Origin

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

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Forms

plural: streamers
Singularstreamer
Pluralstreamers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a newspaper headline that runs across the full page:banner
  • long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising:banner
  • a long flag; often tapering:pennantpennonwaft

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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