noun

• A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
• Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
• (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
• (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.
• (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
• (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
• (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
• (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
• (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
• A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
• (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).