streamer

Etymology

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

noun

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
4. (computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
5. (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
   However, integration of a bandwidth estimation algorithm into an adaptive video streamer is not an easy task. Firstly, bandwidth estimation requires sending extra burst packets that brings a considerable overhead into the system. 2004, Cevdet Aykanat, Tugrul Dayar, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, page 157
6. (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
   Coordinate term: broadcaster
   For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different. 2016-02-23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-11-01
7. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
   Most streamers are on Twitch
   There was perhaps no group of creators more prepared for the horrors of 2020 than streamers. Sitting in front of their cameras, often alone, talking for hours to the camera is what they do, and many are excellent at it. 2020-12-18, Taylor Lorenz, “In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
8. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
9. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
10. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
    While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. 1888, James Russell Lowell, Heartsease and Rue
11. (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
    Since he also demonstrated that the A-streamers in his sample showed enhancement of measured intelligence over their primary school careers while the B-streamers showed deterioration, it can be seen what a far-reaching effect such decisions may have had upon child performance. 1984, Anthony Gale, Antony J. Chapman, Psychology and Social Problems, page 82