Streamer vs False - 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)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun streamer
is a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.streamer
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(wikipedia streamer)Noun
(en noun)See also
* streamAnagrams
*false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}