streamer

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A long narrow flag, banner, or pennant.
• noun A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
• noun A fishing fly that imitates a baitfish.
• noun A column of light shooting across the sky in the aurora borealis.
• noun An extension of rays from the sun's corona.
• noun A newspaper headline that runs across a full page.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun That which streams out, or hangs or floats at full length: applied to anything long and narrow, as a ribbon.
• noun A long narrow flag; a pennon extended or flowing in the wind: same as pennant, 1 .
• noun A stream or column of light shooting upward or outward, as in some forms of the aurora borealis.
• noun A long flowing strip of ribbon, or feather, or something similar, used in decoration, especially in dress.
• noun A long-exserted feather which streams away from the rest of the plumage of some birds; a pennant or standard. See cuts under Semioptera and standard-bearer.
• noun In mining, a person who washes for stream-tin. See streaming.
• noun The geometrid moth Anticlea derivata: an English collectors' name.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
• noun A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
• noun (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.
• noun (Journalism) a banner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
• noun A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
• noun computing A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
• noun fishing In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
• noun mining One who searches for stream tin.
• noun A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
• noun long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
• noun a long flag; often tapering
• noun light that streams