streamer

Meanings

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
4. 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. Any mechanism for streaming data.
6. A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
7. A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
8. In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
9. 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.
11. A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).

Etymology

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