streamer

English

Etymology

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹiːmɚ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

   Synonym: banderole

   • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

     Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 26:

     A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.

   • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎^[1]:

     Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, […]

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
   • 2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     […] from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.

3. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
4. (computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
5. (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
   • 2004, Cevdet Aykanat, Tugrul Dayar, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, page 157:

     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.

6. (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.

   Coordinate term: broadcaster

   • 2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic‎^[3], retrieved 2022-11-01:

     For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

   • 2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

7. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.

   Hypernym: creator

   Most streamers are on Twitch

   • 2020 December 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN:

     There was perhaps no group of creators more prepared for the horrors of 2020 than streamers. Sitting in front of their cameras, often alone, talking for hours to the camera is what they do, and many are excellent at it.

8. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
   • 2019, James W. White, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, page 253:

     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, […]

9. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
10. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
    • 1888, James Russell Lowell, Heartsease and Rue:

      While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.

    • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

      The moon was indeed at the full, and the northern streamers were shining brilliantly.

11. (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
    • 1984, Anthony Gale, Antony J. Chapman, Psychology and Social Problems, page 82:

      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

• helmet streamer
• live streamer
• paper streamer
• streamer discharge

 

Translations

long narrow flag

• Bulgarian: вимпел m (vimpel)
• Danish: vimpel c, fanebånd n (military campaign honour)
• Finnish: viiri (fi)
• French: fanion (fr) m
• Maori: matairangi, pūhihi
• Polish: proporzec (pl) m, proporczyk (pl) m, wimpel m
• Portuguese: galhardete (pt) m
• Russian: вы́мпел (ru) m (výmpel) (flag), полоса́ (ru) f (polosá)
• Sicilian: nzareḍḍi, nzagareḍḍi (both plural)
• Swedish: vimpel (sv) c, serpentin (sv) c

paper

• Finnish: serpentiini (fi)
• Portuguese: serpentina (pt) f
• Spanish: serpentina (es) f

newspaper headline that runs across the entire page

• Finnish: koko sivun levyinen otsikko
• Russian: ша́пка (ru) f (šápka)

data storage system

• Finnish: nauha-asema (fi)
• French: streamer (fr) m
• Russian: стри́мер (ru) m (strímer)

a person who streams on the Internet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: striimaaja (fi), suoralähettäjä
• French: streamer (fr) m, streameur (fr) m, instavidéaste (fr) (Canada, uncommon), joueur-animateur en direct (fr) (very rare)
• German: Streamer (de) m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ストリーマー (sutorīmā)
• Korean: 비제이 (bijei), BJ (BJ), 스트리머 (seuteurimeo)
• Marathi: स्ट्रीमर m (sṭrīmar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strømmer m

• Portuguese: streamer (pt) m or f
• Russian: стри́мер (ru) m (strímer), стри́мерша (ru) f (strímerša)
• Spanish: streamer m or f by sense

variety of wet fly in fly fishing

• Danish: streamer c, streamerflue c
• Finnish: streamer-perho, uppoperho
• French: streamer (fr) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: streamer m, streamerflue m or f

See also

• stream

Further reading

• “streamer”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “streamer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “streamer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “streamer”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• masterer, remaster, restream

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English streamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁi.mœʁ/

Noun

streamer m (plural streamers)

1. (Internet) streamer (one who streams to a live audience online)

   Alternative form: streameur

2. (computing) streamer (data storage system)
3. (fishing) streamer (variety of wet fly in fly fishing)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English stream (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁi.me/

Verb

streamer

1. (transitive, Internet) to stream (to push continuous data from a server to a client computer while it is being used)

Conjugation

Conjugation of streamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	streamer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	streamant /stʁi.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		streamé /stʁi.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	streame /stʁim/	streames /stʁim/	streame /stʁim/	streamons /stʁi.mɔ̃/	streamez /stʁi.me/	streament /stʁim/
	imperfect	streamais /stʁi.mɛ/	streamais /stʁi.mɛ/	streamait /stʁi.mɛ/	streamions /stʁi.mjɔ̃/	streamiez /stʁi.mje/	streamaient /stʁi.mɛ/
	past historic2	streamai /stʁi.me/	streamas /stʁi.ma/	streama /stʁi.ma/	streamâmes /stʁi.mam/	streamâtes /stʁi.mat/	streamèrent /stʁi.mɛʁ/
	future	streamerai /stʁim.ʁe/	streameras /stʁim.ʁa/	streamera /stʁim.ʁa/	streamerons /stʁim.ʁɔ̃/	streamerez /stʁim.ʁe/	streameront /stʁim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	streamerais /stʁim.ʁɛ/	streamerais /stʁim.ʁɛ/	streamerait /stʁim.ʁɛ/	streamerions /stʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	streameriez /stʁi.mə.ʁje/	streameraient /stʁim.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	streame /stʁim/	streames /stʁim/	streame /stʁim/	streamions /stʁi.mjɔ̃/	streamiez /stʁi.mje/	streament /stʁim/
	imperfect2	streamasse /stʁi.mas/	streamasses /stʁi.mas/	streamât /stʁi.ma/	streamassions /stʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/	streamassiez /stʁi.ma.sje/	streamassent /stʁi.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	streame /stʁim/	—	streamons /stʁi.mɔ̃/	streamez /stʁi.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Hypernyms

• diffuser

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English streamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɾimeɾ/ [ˈst̪ɾi.meɾ]
  • Rhymes: -imeɾ
• IPA^(key): (adapted) /esˈtɾimeɾ/ [esˈt̪ɾi.meɾ]
  • Rhymes: -imeɾ

Noun

streamer m or f by sense (plural streamers)

1. (Internet) streamer (a person who streams on the Internet)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

See also

• stream