STREAMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streamer mean? 

• STREAMER (noun)
  The noun STREAMER has 4 senses:

1. light that streams

2. a newspaper headline that runs across the full page

3. a long flag; often tapering

4. long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

  Familiarity information: STREAMER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREAMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Light that streams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

streamers of flames

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Holonyms ("streamer" is a part of...):

aurora (an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A newspaper headline that runs across the full page

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A long flag; often tapering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pennant; pennon; streamer; waft

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "streamer"):

pennoncel; pennoncelle; penoncel (a small pennant borne on a lance)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

 Context examples 

A long, thin streamer of gas and dust stretches like taffy from the galaxy's core and on into space.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

The new ALMA images showcase the explosive nature in high resolution, unveiling important details about the distribution and high-velocity motion of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas inside the streamers.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There they found the flung-out debris from the explosive birth of this clump of massive stars, looking like a cosmic version of fireworks with giant streamers rocketing off in all directions.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

From Orwell to the Dart there was no port which did not send forth its little fleet, gay with streamer and bunting, as for a joyous festival.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I mean I was not dressed up in a black coat and a streamer, to frighten the birds; but I walked over to Blunderstone early in the morning, and was in the churchyard when it came, attended only by Peggotty and her brother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There they found the flung-out debris from the explosive birth of this clump of massive stars, looking like a cosmic version of fireworks with giant streamers rocketing off in all directions.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There, clinging to the stout halliards of the sheet, he gazed with amazement at the long lines of black waves, each with its curling ridge of foam, racing in endless succession from out the inexhaustible west. A huge sombre cloud, flecked with livid blotches, stretched over the whole seaward sky-line, with long ragged streamers whirled out in front of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometers per second.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)