Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long narrow flag, banner, or pennant.
- n. A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
- n. A column of light shooting across the sky in the aurora borealis.
- n. An extension of rays from the sun's corona.
- n. A newspaper headline that runs across a full page.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which streams out, or hangs or floats at full length: applied to anything long and narrow, as a ribbon.
- n. A long narrow flag; a pennon extended or flowing in the wind: same as pennant, 1 .
- n. A stream or column of light shooting upward or outward, as in some forms of the aurora borealis.
- n. A long flowing strip of ribbon, or feather, or something similar, used in decoration, especially in dress.
- n. A long-exserted feather which streams away from the rest of the plumage of some birds; a pennant or standard. See cuts under Semioptera and standard-bearer.
- n. In mining, a person who washes for stream-tin. See streaming.
- n. The geometrid moth Anticlea derivata: an English collectors' name.
Wiktionary
- n. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- n. A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
- n. computing A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
- n. fishing In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- n. mining One who searches for stream tin.
- n. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
- n. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- n. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.
- n. (Journalism) a banner.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- n. long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
- n. a long flag; often tapering
- n. light that streams
Examples
“The fun of having a fish crash upon a streamer is a rush.”
“He had more chases too, but as is usually the case in streamer fishing, you rarely pin them all on.”
“Fished with a 250 grain streamer express line with 2x to 3x tippet this fly pattern as enticed big rainbows as well as striped bass in the same water.”
“These showers are called streamer showers, which is very light rain that doesn't get much development and usually dissipates within a few hours, said Clay Anderson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.”
“During its 14.7-hour orbit of Saturn, Prometheus 102 kilometers, or 63 miles across reaches the point in its elliptical path, called apoapse, where it is farthest away from Saturn and closest to the F ring, and the moon's gravity is just strong enough to draw a "streamer" of material out of the core region of the F ring.”
“Then a second chute may have gotten damaged from the bad "streamer" parachute and the second chute didn't open all the way.”
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“And since the "streamer", as i2i likes to call it, is powered by a built-in rechargeable battery, you can listen in for up to 5 hours before calling it quits.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘streamer’.
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US - war on terror
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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Here Fishy Fishy!
A broad list of words and phrases describing schemes and devices, from ancient to modern, that humans have devised to catch or harvest our underwater friends.
hook, line and si..., hook, line, sinker, pole, rod, bobber, artificial bait, natural bait, fly rod, spinner, plug and 76 more...
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You're a Grand Old Flag
guidon, banderole, gonfalon, pennon, ensign, banner, standard, banneret, oriflamme, pennant, jack, saltire and 64 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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dawn
day begettings and beginnings
aurora, aubade, eos, morn, sunup, fall into place, click, sink in, heimdal, hued, crack, antelucan and 33 more...
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