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Ribbon vs Streamer - What's the difference?

ribbon | streamer |

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 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.
  • a steel or magnesium ribbon
    sails torn to ribbons
  • (shipbuilding)
  • (slang, dated, in the plural) Driving reins.
  • (London Athenaeum)
  • (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.
  • See also

    * riband

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To decorate with ribbon.
  • Synonyms

    * beribbon

    Anagrams

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    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

    Anagrams

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