different between ensign vs streamer

English

Etymology

From Middle English ensigne, from Old French enseigne, from Latin ?nsignia, nominative plural of ?nsigne. Doublet of insignia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.s?n/, IPA^(key): /??n.s?n/, /??ns.n?/ IPA^(key): /??n.sa?n/
• Rhymes: -?ns?n

Noun

ensign (plural ensigns)

1. A badge of office, rank, or power.
2. The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
3. A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour.

   Synonym: ancient
4. (nautical) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship (usually at the stern) to indicate nationality.
5. Any prominent flag or banner.
   • 1667?, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.

6. (historical) A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:badge

(junior commissioned officer):

• coronet (cavalry equivalent of the infantry ensign)
• second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

Derived terms

• ensign first class
• red ensign

Translations

Verb

ensign (third-person singular simple present ensigns, present participle ensigning, simple past and past participle ensigned)

1. (obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.
2. To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
3. (heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.

   Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

Anagrams

• engins, genins

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?i?m?(?)/
• Rhymes: -i?m?(?)

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

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

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

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

   Hypernym: creator
7. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
8. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
9. 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.

Translations

See also

• stream

Anagrams

• masterer, remaster, restream