Streamer vs. Headline

By Jaxson

  • Headline

    The headline or heading is the text indicating the nature of the article below it.

    The large type front page headline did not come into use until the late 19th century when increased competition between newspapers led to the use of attention-getting headlines.

    It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type.Headlines in English often use a set of grammatical rules known as headlinese, designed to meet stringent space requirements by, for example, leaving out forms of the verb “to be” and choosing short verbs like “eye” over longer synonyms like “consider”.

Wikipedia
  • Streamer (noun)

    A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

  • Streamer (noun)

    Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

  • Streamer (noun)

    A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.

  • Streamer (noun)

    In computing.

  • Streamer (noun)

    A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.

  • Streamer (noun)

    Any mechanism for streaming data.

    “a video streamer”

  • Streamer (noun)

    In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.

  • Streamer (noun)

    One who searches for stream tin.

  • Streamer (noun)

    A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

  • Headline (noun)

    The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.

    “hed”

    “The headline on today’s newspaper reads “John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition.””

  • Headline (noun)

    The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.

  • Headline (noun)

    The top-billed attraction.

    “headliner”

  • Headline (noun)

    A headrope.

  • Headline (verb)

    To have top billing; to be the main attraction.

Wiktionary
  • Streamer (noun)

    a long, narrow strip of material used as a decoration or symbol

    “a streamer of smoke”

    “plastic party streamers”

  • Streamer (noun)

    a banner headline in a newspaper

    “a streamer head in the student paper”

  • Streamer (noun)

    a fly with feathers attached

    “a streamer fly”

  • Streamer (noun)

    an elongated mass of luminous matter, e.g. in aurorae or the sun’s corona

    “above active sunspot regions coronal streamers may travel 140 million km into space”

  • Streamer (noun)

    short for tape streamer

Oxford Dictionary

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