Meaning of STREAMER
| Pronunciation: | | 'streemur
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- [n] long strip of cloth for decoration or advertising
- [n] a long flag; often tapering
- [n] a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- [n] light that streams; "streamers of flames"
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| | Synonyms: | | banner, banner, pennant, pennon, waft |
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| | See Also: | | aurora, flag, headline, light, newspaper headline, pennoncel, pennoncelle, penoncel, visible light, visible radiation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Stream"er\, n.
1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind;
specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving
streamers the glad general knows. --Dryden.
3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the
horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora
borealis. --Macaulay.
While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
--Lowell.
3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.
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