streamer
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈstriːmər/
:
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- His body began to throw off radiance, a bright corona that lit the skies all around with its lambent streamers.
- streamers of light
- plasma streamers
- streamers of smoke
Examples
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Tracers zipped by her wing, leaving lines of smoke like paper party streamers.
Fiction book (1994) -
The northern New Mexico sky was bright with streamers of color, strawberry red and lemon yellow.
Fiction book (1998) -
The sun rose, its rays washing over them in streamers.
Fiction book (1990) -
Beautiful long streamers extend away from the sun in the equatorial regions.
Academic text (1991) -
A mass of fins and streamers fell from the creature's head and neck and trailed into the water.
Fiction book (1998) -
He waved at the dish on the table, which was sending up a thin streamer of bluish smoke.
Fiction book (1990) -
Streamers of white-blonde bangs swayed under the wool hat.
Fiction book (1997) -
The darkness was almost complete, but the dirty white mist floated on it in long streamers, as though it were reaching out and trying to grasp something.
Fiction book (2001) -
The furthest streamers of the corona glow far above that rim behind, looking almost like the aurora borealis back on Earth.
Fiction book (1997) -
The northern New Mexico sky was bright with streamers of color, strawberry red and lemon yellow.
Synonyms
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2.2
A narrow column of light that you can see in the air
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
A fishing lure with long wings that extend past the hook to look like a small fish
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Streamer comes from stream meaning 'flow' and -er meaning 'one that'. A long line or trail of light or flame looks like something that 'flows' through the air, which is why we call it a streamer.