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Pendant vs Streamer - What's the difference?

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Pendant is a related term of streamer.


As nouns the difference between pendant and streamer

is that pendant is counterpart while streamer is a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

pendant

English

Alternative forms

* pendaunt (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
  • (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles.
  • A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
  • (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
  • The dangling part of an earring.
  • (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
  • * Keightley
    • Many have been pleased with this work and its pendant , the Tales and Popular Fictions.
  • (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
    • One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
  • (obsolete) A pendulum.
  • (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
    • (Knight)

    Related terms

    * to depend * to impend * penchant * to pend * pendent ----

    streamer

    English

    (wikipedia streamer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
  • A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
  • (lb) Of computing.
  • #A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
  • #Any mechanism for ing data.
  • #:
  • (lb) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
  • (lb) One who searches for stream tin.
  • A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
  • *(James Russell Lowell) (1819-1891)
  • *:While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
  • :(Macaulay)

    • See also

    * stream

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