Ribbon vs Streamer - What's the difference?
ribbon | streamer |
A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
A narrow strip or shred.
(shipbuilding)
(slang, dated, in the plural) Driving reins.
(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(spinning) A sliver.
(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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*: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.
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(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)
As nouns the difference between ribbon and streamer
is that ribbon is a long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping while streamer is a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.As a verb ribbon
is to decorate with ribbon.ribbon
English
(wikipedia ribbon)Noun
(en noun)- a steel or magnesium ribbon
- sails torn to ribbons
- (London Athenaeum)