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.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
4. (heading) In computing.
   1. A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
   2. Any mechanism for stream#Verb|streaming data.
      • 2004, Cevdet Aykanat, ‎Tugrul Dayar, ‎Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium (page 157)

        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.

   3. (internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
5. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
6. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
7. 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.

• Russian: вы́мпел

• Russian: ша́пка

• Russian: стри́мер