Streamer vs Colours - What's the difference?
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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)
English plurals
(plurale tantum, nautical) The national flag flown by a ship at sea.
(plurale tantum) The British military ceremony of raising the flag.
(sports, snooker) The balls that score more than one point in snooker. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.
(colour)