Screamer vs Streamer - What's the difference?
screamer | streamer |
One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.
* c.1840-41 , ,
* 1886 , ,
* 1999 June 27, "J2rider", "Favourite companions to hate or love", in rec.arts.drwho, Usenet :
Any bird in the taxonomic family Anhimidae , endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet.
(obsolete, US, hunting) A healthy, vigorous animal.John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms — SCREAMER. A bouncing fellow or girl. This, like the word roarer , is one of the words transferred from animals to men by the hunters of the West.
* 1917 , (editor), ''Southern Life in Southern Literature ,
A healthy, vigorous person.
Something exceptionally good.
* 1875 , ,
(sports, cricket) A difficult catch.
* 2010 , True Colours ,
(sports, baseball) A very hard hit.
* 2006 , R. G. Utley, Tim Peeler, Aaron Peeler, Outlaw Ballplayers: interviews and profiles from the Independent Carolina Baseball League ,
(sports, Australian rules football) A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball).
* 2008 , John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion ,
(sports, soccer) a powerful shot.
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(sports, surfing) A very large wave.
* 2010 , Peter Klein, Silk Chaser ,
(Internet slang) A video that unexpectedly frightens the viewer by cutting to a loud scream and disturbing image.
* 2008 , Nadia Giosia, Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook
(slang) An effeminate gay man; a man who is obviously gay (homosexual).
* 1989 , Joseph P. Goodwin, More Man Than You’ll Ever Be: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America , Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-20497-4,
* 1992 , in The Advocate , issues 607–610, page 315:
* 2001 May 5, "cJ" (username), "Studly buff gay guy?", in alt.tv.survivor, Usenet :
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.
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As nouns the difference between screamer and streamer
is that screamer is one who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly while streamer is a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.screamer
English
(wikipedia screamer)Noun
(en noun)- 'Don't be frightened, mistress,' said Quilp, after a pause. 'Your son knows me; I don't eat babies; I don't like 'em. It will be as well to stop that young screamer though, in case I should be tempted to do him a mischief. Holloa, sir! Will you be quiet?'
- He stood almost appalled for a moment, as he said to himself that she would take her up and the girl would be ruined, would force her note and become a screamer .
- In my opinion, Sarah was a total screamer . [...] She screams in BRAIN OF MORIBUS, PYRAMIDS OF MARS, PLANET OF EVIL, REVENGE OF CYBERMEN, GENESIS OF DALEKS, SEEDS OF DOOM, ARK IN SPACE, etc, etc. In just about all her stories. When she is not screaming she is yelping, "Run Doctor RUNNNNNN!"
- I had seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a screamer .
- ... I do not judge hastily, Alec, for I have read a dozen, at least, of these stories, and, with much that is attractive to boys, I find a great deal to condemn in them, and other parents say the same when I ask them."
- "Now, Mum, that's too bad! I like 'em tip-top. This one is a regular screamer ," cried Will.
- But then he came around the wicket again, I slashed at one, and Strauss, at full stretch diving to his left at second slip, took an absolute screamer . It was the catch of the summer, and it happened to me.
- His screamer into the right field bleachers in the sixth with Scarborough and Viau on base put Hickory out in front 9 to 8 and the lead held for the rest of the game.
- Virtually every other facet of the game is shared by other sports, but the sight of a player taking a fingertip ‘screamer ’ whilst perched on the shoulders of an opponent is unique to footy, and players who perfect this ability are among the code’s most celebrated and well remembered.
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- That set the pattern for us both. Catch a screamer , work it hard for as long as you could, then drop back over the shoulder and paddle back out to the line-up.
- The Web is also big business; who needs a real job when you can just send Grandma a screamer and—POOF!—there's your inheritance.
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- Well, this friend was a real effeminate person—[he] was just a screamer . Well even my brother was smart enough to realize they were gay.
- So when sings in his latest hit, “Girl, you're just too funky for me,” is he really singing about a woman? Or is he just being a total screamer and gender-fucking his male love object?
- I thought Jeff was a screamer . I am still wondering about Alicia. She hangs with Jeff. But I shouldn't assume someone is lesbian by the company they keep.