# streamer

Pronunciation: US say "STREE-mer" /ˈstɹimɚ/; UK say "STREE-muh" /ˈstɹiːmə/

## Noun

1. Someone who lets an online audience watch their computer activities live, often while playing video games.
   - Simple: Someone who shows what they are doing live on the internet, often while playing video games.
   - _The streamer answered questions from viewers between matches._
   - _Popular streamers can earn a living through subscriptions and donations._
2. A long, narrow flag or strip of material displayed or used as decoration.
   - Simple: A long, thin piece of cloth or paper hung up as a decoration.
   - _A red streamer fluttered from the ship's mast._
   - _The gym was decorated with paper streamers for the school dance._
3. Strips of paper or similar material thrown as confetti during celebrations.
   - Simple: Thin strips of paper that people throw at parties and celebrations.
   - _Streamers rained down on the parade as it passed through downtown._
   - _He pulled a streamer from his hair hours after the New Year's party ended._
4. A subscription service that streams content, such as television shows and films, to an audience.
   - Simple: A paid service that sends movies, shows, or music to you over the internet.
   - _The streamer announced a slate of original dramas for next year._
   - _Competition among streamers has driven up the cost of sports broadcast rights._
5. A newspaper headline that runs across the full width at the top of a page.
   - Simple: A big headline that goes all the way across the top of a newspaper page.
   - _The editor saved the streamer for the biggest story of the year._
   - _Wartime front pages often carried streamers set in towering type._
6. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, one of the forms taken by the aurora borealis.
   - Simple: A tall beam of light from the northern lights that rises up from the horizon.
   - _Photographers waited hours in the cold for a single streamer to flare above the ridge._
   - _Crimson streamers shot up from the horizon as the aurora intensified._
7. A fly-fishing lure intended to look like a minnow and used below the water's surface.
   - Simple: A type of fishing lure made to look like a small fish in the water.
   - _She stripped the streamer through the current to provoke a strike._
   - _Anglers switch to streamers when the trout stop rising to surface insects._
8. A data storage device, used mainly for producing backups, that transfers large quantities of data to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
   - Simple: A machine that saves large amounts of computer data onto a moving tape, mostly for backup copies.
   - _The lab archives its raw data to a streamer at the end of each week._
   - _Before hard drives became cheap, many businesses relied on streamers for nightly backups._
9. Any mechanism, in hardware or software, used for streaming data.
   - Simple: A device or program that sends data in a steady flow over a network.
   - _The new media streamer supports both wired and wireless connections._
   - _Network engineers tested several streamers to find one with low latency._
10. A pupil assigned to a particular stream, a class grouping based on perceived academic ability. *(UK)*
   - Simple: A student who is put in a school group based on ability.
   - _Each streamer sits the same end-of-year exams as the rest of the form._
   - _Streamers in the lower groups often had fewer subject choices at GCSE._
11. A person who searches for stream tin, the tin ore found in the beds and gravels of streams.
   - Simple: A worker who looks for tin in the sand and gravel of streams.
   - _Each streamer staked a claim along the valley and sifted the gravel for ore._
   - _Cornish streamers had worked these valleys for tin since medieval times._

## Origin

From Middle English stremer or stremere, equivalent to "stream" plus the suffix "-er".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/streamer (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).