From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A long, narrow flag , or piece of material used or seen as a decoration .
2. * [passage=Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving STREAMERS the glad general knows.]
3. * [volume=I]
4. * [passage=Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than [ interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advanced—looking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high-colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble facades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded lettering,] the multifarious awnings, banners, and STREAMERS , [the extraordinary number of omnibuses, HORSECARS , and other democratic vehicles, the vendors of cooling fluids, the white trousers and big straw hats of the policemen, the tripping gait of the modish young persons on the pavement, the general brightness, newness, juvenility, both of people and things.]]
5. * [chapter=Afterglow]
6. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti .
7. * [en-GB]
8. [en] A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page . < !--may be entire width or just some of the columns-->
9. [en] A data storage system , mainly used to produce backup s, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape ; a tape drive .
10. [en] Any mechanism for stream ing data.
11. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=Cevdet Aykanat; Tugrul Dayar; Ibrahim Korpeoglu | title=Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium | page=157
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
2. * [en]
3. * [en-US]
4. [en] A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming ) to a live online audience.
5. * [en]
6. [en] In fly fishing , a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow .
7. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2019 | author=James W. White | title=Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania | page=253
|passage=Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him,
I threw my STREAMER between the main channel's flow and the skinnier
side-channel flow, [...]}}
1. [en] One who searches for stream tin .
2. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon , constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1888 | author=w:James Russell Lowell | title=Heartsease and Rue
|passage=While overhead the North's dumb STREAMERS shoot.}}
1. * [passage=The moon was indeed at the full, and the northern STREAMERS were shining brilliantly.]
2. [en] A pupil belonging to a particular stream [division by perceived ability] .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1984 | author=Anthony Gale; Antony J. Chapman | title=Psychology and Social Problems | page=82
|passage=Since he also demonstrated that the A- STREAMERS in his sample showed
enhancement of measured intelligence over their primary school careers while
the B- STREAMERS showed deterioration, it can be seen what a far-reaching
effect such decisions may have had upon child performance.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[long narrow flag]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da] , [da] [military campaign honour]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] _(flag)_ , [ru]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] [both plural]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[paper]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[newspaper headline that runs across the entire page]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[data storage system]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[a person who streams on the Internet]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] [Canada, uncommon] , [fr] [very rare]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[variety of wet fly in fly fishing]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:Collins]
- [R:Merriam-Webster]
- [R:Lexico]
- [R:Cambridge]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology 1
[fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [strimeur]
**** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] [en] [one who stream s to a live audience online]
2. [fr] [en] [data storage system]
3. [fr] [en] [variety of wet fly in fly fishing]
*** Etymology 2
[fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [strimer]
**** Verb
[fr-verb]
1. [fr] to stream [to push continuous data from a server to a client computer while it is being used]
***** Conjugation
[pron=strimer]
***** Hypernyms
- [fr]
** Portuguese
[lang=pt]
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[br=i*strímer]
- [pt]
*** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [pt] [en] [person who streams on the Internet]
*** See also
- [pt]
[pt]
** Spanish
[lang=es]
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[strímer]
*** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [es] [en] [a person who streams on the Internet]
**** Usage notes
[es-unadapted]
*** See also
- [es]