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STREAMER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long flag; often tapering

Synonyms:

pennant; pennon; streamer; waft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "streamer"):

pennoncel; pennoncelle; penoncel (a small pennant borne on a lance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A newspaper headline that runs across the full page

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Light that streams

Example:

streamers of flames

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("streamer" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Holonyms ("streamer" is a part of...):

aurora (an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force)

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the centre of this vast assemblage the lists seemed but a narrow strip of green marked out with banners and streamers, while a gleam of white with a flutter of pennons at either end showed where the marquees were pitched which served as the dressing-rooms of the combatants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)