different between streamer vs streame

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

English

Noun

streame (plural streames)

1. Obsolete spelling of stream

Anagrams

• Maestre, Mateers, Teamers, measter, merates, remates, reteams, steamer, teamers

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *straumijan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?str???m?/

Verb

streame

1. to flow

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• stream

Further reading

• “streame”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011