Streamer vs Watcher - What's the difference?
streamer | watcher |
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)
