streamer

1. (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

2. (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.

3. (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.Examples: "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."

4. (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.Examples: "For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different."; "So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”"Internet

5. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.Examples: "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."Internet

6. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.Examples: "Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]"