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▪ I. streamer, n.|ˈstriːmə(r)|
Forms: 3–7 stremer(e, 4–5 stremour (6 Sc. stremowr), 6 streemer, stremar (Sc. streamar), streymer (straymer), 6– streamer.
[f. stream v. + -er1.]
1. A flag streaming or waving in the air; spec. a long and narrow pointed flag or pennon.
1292in Champollion-Figeac Lettres des Rois (1839) I. 397 Lesqueles banères sount appelés baucans, et la gent d'Engleterre les appelent stremeres. 1295Acc. Exch. K.R. 5/8 m. 13 Et v.s. vj.d. in .j. Stremer empto de Hugone Kelinge Et xij.d. in .j. Phane empto ad Mast. 13..Sir Beues 3042 Vpon þe hiȝeste mast is top þere He let sette vp a stremere Of his fader armure. a1400Isumbras 224 Those schippes sawe thay ryde With toppe castelles sett one lofte,..Stremours fro thame ferre gane glyde. 1500Inv. Ch. Goods Canterb. in Gentl. Mag. (1837) Dec. 571/2, j stremer, of rede bokeram, wt a dragon of Saynt George therin, and a rode baner staff 'longyng thereto. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 53 b, Barges garnished with standardes, stremers and penons. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. i, Ant. Where stands my fathers hearse? 2nd Pa. Those streamers beare his armes. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 596 A little Streamer worne on the top of a lawnce by a Horseman. 1671Milton Samson 718 Like a stately Ship..With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving. 1704Prior Let. to M. Boileau Despreaux 74 What Poet would essay To count the Streamers of my Lord Mayor's Day? 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. xxxii. (271) Whose Streamers and Cognizances hang still up in the said Church. 1784Cowper Task ii. 255 Now hoist the sail, and let the streamers float Upon the wanton breezes. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge xlviii, He shall carry..the gayest silken streamer in this valiant army.
fig.1648Herrick Hesper., Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler, Lost Shepardesse 12 In yond' Carnation goe and seek, There thou shalt find her lip and cheek:..In bloome of Peach, and Roses bud, There waves the Streamer of her blood. 1784Cowper Task v. 330 Your self-denying zeal, that holds it good..to hang His thorns with streamers of continual praise. 1860Hawthorne Transform. xlviii, [To him] the Corso was but a narrow and shabby street of decaying palaces; and even the long, blue streamer of Italian sky, above it, not half so brightly blue as formerly.
2. transf.
a. gen. Something long and narrow, that hangs loose in the manner of a streamer.
1810Scott Lady of L. i. xi, The brier-rose fell in streamers green. 1853Mrs. Gore Dean's Dau. xxxvii. III. 183 ‘My maid pointed out to me..this morning half-a-dozen grey hairs in these miserable streamers,’ replied Lady Emily, passing her hand lightly through the long, fair ringlets. 1889Repent. Paul Wentworth III. 228 Tying up a bouquet..with long streamers of pale yellow ribbon. 1908[Miss E. Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 286, I have seen long streamers of dark pink roses swinging over the Red Sandstone walls of Melrose.
†b. Some kind of decoration for pastry. Obs.
1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 6 Jan., Great cakes frothed with sugar, and stuck with streamers of tinsel. 1717Prior Alma i. 388 He must be an idle dreamer, Who leaves the pie, and gnaws the streamer.
c. A long flowing ribbon, feather, etc. attached to some article of dress.
1838W. C. Harris Narr. Exped. S. Africa xii. 106 A collection of skin streamers like the tails of a lady's boa attached to a thin waistcord, being the nearest approach to an habiliment amongst them. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxi, The obliging care of his martial friend had decorated his hat with sundry parti-coloured streamers. 1853C. Brontë Villette xx, A lady's head-dress—a most airy sort of blue and silver turban, with a streamer of plumage on one side. 1862Thackeray Philip xxviii, Her own battered, blowsy old chapeau, with its limp streamers.
d. A long exserted feather streaming away from the rest of the plumage of certain birds.[Cf. 1869–73 in sense 8 a.] 1879A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. X. 712/1 In this [species] the remigial streamers do not lose their barbs. 1899A. H. Evans Birds 548 The extraordinary Pteridophora alberti possesses a wonderful streamer behind each eye, twice as long as the body.
e. A long narrow strip of vapour, snow, etc.
1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) viii. 176 Fragments of vapour..clustered in long streamers upon the mountain sides. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 27 Streamers of snow may be seen flying from the higher ridges. 1895R. W. Chambers King in Yellow (1909) 253 Long streamers of clouds touched with rose swept low on the western sky.
f. A long narrow strip of coloured paper used as a festive decoration or rolled up to unwind when thrown (at a celebration, etc.).
1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. xvi. 262 The [Christmas] tree became more laden, and the streamers and glass balls produced a more brilliant effect. 1918A. Bennett Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1932) II. 242 The feature of last night was girls with bunches of streamers which they flicked in your face as you passed. 1930E. Rice Voyage to Purilia xii. 155 The room was gay, with streamers of coloured paper and with large gas balloons. 1959M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 239 She..found herself waving farewell to her tearful parents from the deck of a ship. Only then, as the tangling streamers snapped across the widening water, did she remember to be surprised at herself. 1980Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 15/6 This useful company also supplies carnival and party novelties including balloons.., dance streamers,..lucky dip prizes and stocking fillers.
g. = banner n.1 2 c. Also transf.
1909G. R. Chester Making of Bobby Burnet xix. 230 Use two-inch streamers clear across the page. 1922U. Sinclair They call me Carpenter 88 The headlines flamed before my mind's eye—streamer heads, all the way across the sheet. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxv. 254 Then a very good crime reporter called a portico thief a cat-burglar and the story got a streamer headline. 1957[see banner n.1 2 c]. 1963Times 19 Apr. 8/5 Invitations to browse in these places, moreover, occasionally decorate the discreet vans of the Stationery Office. But this form of streamer on the van is technically known as a ‘filler’, which means that it is used only when the space is not required for boosting some new publication.
h. Angling. A fly with feathers attached, which simulates a small fish; also, the feathers so employed. Freq. attrib., chiefly as streamer fly. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1919D. Carroll Fishing, Tackle & Kits 265 The white bucktail with the red feather streamers in the shape of a tail made the trout strike. 1929Field & Stream June 65/3 (Advt.), Dixie Wiggler..different colored streamers. 1930Forest & Stream Mar. 202/2 A lure which is justly famous in a few restricted localities..is the Streamer Fly... This fly is tied in more or less conventional hackle style with a two- or three-inch streamer feather as a tail. 1952J. Veniard Fly Dressers' Guide xiii. 140 Streamer Flies. This type of fly is immensely popular in America, but its possibilities in the United Kingdom have never been seriously considered. The nearest approach we have to it is the ‘lure’, which consists usually of two or three hooks in tandem with a long wing. The idea is very much the same..the main difference being that many of the ‘streamers’ are tied to represent the small fish on which game fish feed, whereas most of the lures are just brightly coloured ‘attractors’. 1971K. Draper Trout Flies in N.Z. ii. 41 One of the most popular types of tie is the Parson's Glory style of streamer. This fly is closely allied to the American streamer fly which is tied in much the same manner except that the long neck or saddle hackles ‘stream’ free. 1975D. J. Collyer Fly-Dressing xi. 167 Seven years ago I received..two very interesting flies, both streamers..designed by Lew Oatman, an American, to imitate small fish.
3.
†a. A luminous heavenly body emitting a continuous stream of light. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 21 The twinkling stremowris of the orient Sched purpour sprangis with gold and asure ment, Persand the sabill barmkyn nocturnall. 1594Nashe Terrors Nt. Wks. 1904 I. 354 Sundry times wee behold whole Armies of men skirmishing in the Ayre, Dragons, wilde beasts, bloody streamers, blasing Comets, firie strakes, with other apparitions innumerable. 1647J. Hall Poems 71 O who so stupid that would not Resolve to Atoms, for to play 'Mong th' golden streamers he shall shut, While he prolongs one endlesse day?
b. Formerly, † the tail of a comet. In mod. use, a long, thin component or appendage of the tail of some comets.
1621Quarles Esther Introd. B 4 b, With mighty streamers came these blazing starres, Portending Warres. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 39 It was not by far so bright, nor its streamer shining as this hath appeared. 1710N. Blundell Diary (1895) 85 My Wife and I saw y⊇ Strange Starr..the Streamer of it seemed to be fully four yards long. 1909G. F. Chambers Story of Comets iii. 23 Although comets usually have but one tail, 2 are not uncommon, whilst even that number is often increased by the presence of slender streamers, which are virtually independent tails. 1931[see jet n.2 4 c (i)]. 1972D. C. Knight Comets 13 The tail of Donati's comet of 1858 was some 50 million miles long..and was split into two or three streamers.
c. A ray proceeding from the sun; esp. pl., the radiation of the sun's corona seen in eclipses.
1697Dryden æneis vii. 35 When the rosie Morn began to rise, And wav'd her Saffron Streamer thro' the Skies. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 108. 2/2 Your Rayes so extensive, And Lust'ring Streamers. 1878Proctor Myst. Time & Space (1883) 110 The Sun's long streamers. Ibid. 119 The theory that such meteor systems may explain coronal streamers seen during total eclipses of the sun.
d. pl. The Aurora Borealis; rarely sing. (poet.), one of the darting rays or flashes forming this phenomenon. Cf. streaming vbl. n. b.
1735Byrom Rem. (1855) I. ii. 519 Mr. C. had a coach, in which I rode to Gray's Inn; there were streamers in the air very remarkable. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 64 The Aurora Borealis..which the vulgar call streamers. 1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray iii. 148 In the Winter Nights, the Aurora Borealis (from its desultory motion, called Merry⁓dancers and Streamers) affords no small light. 1801J. Leyden Elfin-King xxx, When high over head fall the streamers red. 1842Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 139 The great brand..flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn. a1861A. H. Clough Mari Magno v. 329 While the arctic streamers bright Rolled from the clouds in waves of airy light. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 250 His splendour is like that of northern streamers in its lambency.
e. A streaming jet or tongue of flame.
1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chem. I. 265 From time to time this streamer darts out to the length of seven or eight inches, snapping and emitting sparks of fire.
f. A filamentary luminosity sometimes seen to extend from an electrode in a gas when the potential difference is not great enough to produce a spark or arc; a similar feature that extends from a cloud or something on the ground prior to a stroke of lightning along the same path.
1910Encycl. Brit. V. 883/1 Bright curved streamers starting from the negative terminal. 1934Physical Rev. XLVI. 101/2 The breakdown in argon is similar to that in helium except that no glow discharge is observed and no anode streamer forms. 1935Proc. R. Soc. A. CLII. 597 The leader to the first stroke consists of a series of streamers moving downwards in a step-by-step manner. 1953Meek & Craggs Electr. Breakdown of Gases iii. 159 In a 6-cm. gap with a 0·05-mm. point, the streamers gradually lengthen, as the voltage is raised, to 1·1 cm. and then breakdown occurs. 1972Jrnl. Physics D V. 2179 Photomultiplier investigations..have shown that the streamers are weakly luminous channels, and that almost all the ionization phenomena are concentrated at their tip. 1979J. G. Navarra Atmosphere, Weather & Climate ix. 298 When the leader stroke approaches the ground, a discharge streamer is extended from the ground up to the leader and completes the channel.
†4. A rider or supplementary addition to a document. Obs.
1696S. Sewall Diary 2 Dec. (1878) I. 439 Capt. Byfield brings in a long Bill from the deputys for a Fast and Reformation, written by Mr. Cotton Mather, to which a Streamer was added expressing that Partiality in Courts of Justice was obvious.
5. The geometrid moth Anticlea derivata.
1775M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 45 Streamer... White moth, having a bar of brown near the thorax and another waving like a narrow flag near the tip. 1832J. Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 123 The Streamer (Anticlea derivata). 1869E. Newman Brit. Moths 166.
6. Mining. One who washes detrital deposits to procure the ore they contain.
1619in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.) III. 34 John Gibson..who..now is a Washer or streamer for Gold. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 214 A streamer there, found native gold immersed in the body of a blue sandy slat. 1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 49 Some streamers..brought in a parcel of tin ore. 1865Esquiros Cornw. 41 Streamers, that is to say, men who obtain tin by washing the deposits found by the disaggregation of the primitive rocks.
7. Educ. [f. the n.] With a categorizing letter prefixed: a child belonging to that stream in a school, or one whose abilities are adapted to such a stream; esp. C-streamer, a child of little academic ability.
1966Guardian 4 Apr. 6/1 C-stream children in a competitive society have the makings of failure before they start... Let us take it that eventually the C-streamer has been taught to read. 1967Punch 20 Dec. 952/3 These..riddles will hold ten-year-olds enthralled until next Christmas—or even, in the case of certain C-streamers, the one after. 1970Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 18 Jan. 8/1 They are C-streamers, from poor homes.
8. attrib. and Comb.
a. In general use.
1534in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 196 Paid to þe stremer⁓berers xvj d. 1869–73T. R. Jones Cassell's Bk. Birds II. 131 The Streamer-bearing Night Jar..(Cosmetornis vexillarius). 1871Nesbitt Catal. Slade Coll. Glass 75 Green and red streamer points. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 688/1 Drawn out to streamer-like dimensions. 1899Meredith Poems, Night-walk 3 Awakes for me and leaps from shroud All radiantly the moon's own night Of folded showers in streamer cloud.
b. Physical Chem. Applied to a type of molecular orbital possessing a single nodal plane and formed out of identical atomic orbitals of the same phase from each of the atoms in the ring or chain backbone of the molecule.
1966Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. II. xxvii. 348 The lowest benzene π (aromatic) orbitals of the ‘streamer’ kind, one from each benzene, have nodes only in the planes of the benzene rings, and taken in combination are therefore either of the A1g or A2u type symmetry. 1974Gill & Willis Pericyclic Reactions iv. 117 The lowest hexatriene level (ψ1) is the typical ‘streamer’ orbital (i.e. {pm} {pm} {pm} {pm} {pm} {pm}) which is of A symmetry with respect to C2y and of S symmetry with respect to the mirror plane σyz.
Sense 8 in Dict. becomes 9. Add: 8. Computing. = tape streamer s.v. *tape n.1 4.
1980Electronics 23 Oct. 240/2 A streamer tape is limited in that it can't back up to selected files. 1981Ibid. 10 Feb. 98/1 A lack of streamers last year forced original-equipment manufacturers to use floppy disks and start/stop drives. 1985Practical Computing May 26/1 (Advt.), With their streamers taking an hour and four minutes to find a file, our competitors must think you have all the time in the world. 1988Computer Weekly 19 May 42 Each streamer comes with..controller card, software and data cassette cartridge.
▪ II. streamer, v.|ˈstriːmə(r)|
[f. streamer n.]
trans. To furnish or fill with streamers. Hence ˈstreamered ppl. a., ˈstreamering vbl. n.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles i. xv, Lord Ronald's fleet swept by, Streamer'd with silk, and trick'd with gold. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. ii. 21 After the last rays of day had disappeared, and again in the morning before they had begun to streamer the east, the song of praise was sung. 1824Moir in Blackw. Mag. XVI. 283 The streamer'd flags of far-spread realms shall meet. 1834J. Wilson Ibid. XXXVI. 5 The air is streamered with flags. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. vi. iii, We have a bright Sun; and all is marching, streamering, and blaring. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 143 She had secretly donned the despised streamered cap. |