What's the difference between streamer and tinsel?

Streamer


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Sertoli cells possessed a "streamer" like formation of strong TPPase activity spreading from basal to apical portion.
  • (2) One happy online user described the marinades thus: "Turns ordinary, boring, everyday chicken into a Festival of Chicken, complete with chicken-skin streamers and party giblets".
  • (3) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.
  • (4) A class of aggregation pattern mutants called 'streamers' have been isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum and analysed genetically.
  • (5) In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.
  • (6) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
  • (7) Streamer F mutants have been found to be useful tools for studying the pathway of signal transduction leading to chemotactic cell movement.
  • (8) The growing tips and fine spike-like sprouts called 'streamers' were also highly stained with laminin immunoreactivity.
  • (9) The total number of complementation groups giving the streamer phenotype is estimated from statistical calculation, based on the frequency of allelism, to be between seven and nine.
  • (10) Still 0-0 1.16am GMT 48 mins The most exciting thing to have happened in this second half so far are the enormous number of streamers that descended on Jimmy Nielsen and the KC goal area.
  • (11) "Twitch remains a lot more 'wild west', with streamers often playing music in the background without thinking too much about copyright law.
  • (12) "It is customary to welcome the team in Argentina with a display of fireworks, bombardas (small bombs that make a big noise but do not actually explode) and confetti - plus paper streamers that are mostly rolls of toilet paper.
  • (13) Measurements in streamer F mutant cells reveal that cGMP likely plays a role in the regulation of the cAMP-induced hyperpolarization.
  • (14) If your daughter has a pink bike with streamers on the handlebars, and those elements are understood as distinctly feminine, then you're far less likely to hand it on to your son.
  • (15) Bacterial colony counts and quantitative estimation of vaginal epithelial cells were performed on urine collected by 18 female volunteers using conventional clean-catch technics and on urine collected by the same 18 women using the Clean Streamer.
  • (16) There might still be a few empty seats, but someone at least thought to bring a massive yellow streamer and launch it out onto the field near the left sideline.
  • (17) Characteristic features of pattern alopecia included: the presence of miniature or vellus follicles; a marked enlargement of the sebaceous glands and arrectores pilorum muscles; the presence of connective tissue streamers beneath the vellus follicles; and the thinning of the dermis.
  • (18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "At the start of the Copa Libertadores final at Boca Juniors, the fans converted their stadium into a garbage dump by covering the playing field in litter and draping paper streamers over the goal posts with no attempt to clear the debris," noted Ian Simpson, way back when.
  • (19) Bleeding is a major consideration; surface tension tends to keep venous blood oozing along surfaces, whereas pulsatile arterial blood forms droplets, streamers, and clouds, depending on the force of the bleeding.
  • (20) This isolate produced copious amounts of extracellular polymer at 10 C in the laboratory and was considered to be the primary source of polymer in the "acid streamer" slime matrix.

Tinsel


Definition:

  • (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
  • (n.) Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
  • (a.) Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (2) Men dressed as Hindu deities, with tinsel crowns and tridents, wait for their turn on the stage.
  • (3) Imagine the biggest supermarket you've ever been to, then replace all the food with tinsel, artificial trees and decorations, and you'll be close to the spectacle that Bronner's Christmas Wonderland provides.
  • (4) Baubles and tinsel lose their shine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sales of Christmas baubles fell.
  • (5) He’s a great leader, a great Australian and a great prime minister,” howls Reynolds, in a checked shirt, striking white beard and with tinsel around his neck.
  • (6) Britain’s retailers are hanging out the tinsel and looking forward to a bumper Christmas, with unemployment down, living standards finally climbing and house prices on the rise.
  • (7) This year, after the turkey and tinsel are put away, why not start small and plot a sustainable course for success?
  • (8) Ignoring my entreaties that you really didn’t need to dress up to go to a gig, my daughter had her hair tied up with tinsel, her best party dress on and a purple sequined stole.
  • (9) Silver frost on barbed wire, strange tinsel, sparkled and winked.
  • (10) So here we are in frosty, socially conscious Poplar, passing tinsel-garlanded forceps to the doughty district nurses of Nonnatus House as they tend to a flurry of imperilled postwar flimflams.
  • (11) The reason I am so non-judgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural tinsel that adorns the reporting around them is that I am a drug addict in recovery, so like any drug addict I know exactly how Hoffman felt when he "went back out".
  • (12) Like most of his generation, he became infected by the mutant spores of rock’n’roll – Buddy Holly and Little Richard were favourites – but he also loved the tinsel, glamour and artifice of old-time show business.
  • (13) The duchess sat at a table with a group of children decorating picture frames with stars and tinsel flowers.
  • (14) Photograph: Alamy After two years of growing sales from 2011, sales of festive products such as baubles, tinsel and artificial Christmas trees dropped almost a third last year.
  • (15) We stopped, and Susie motioned for Mae to open a gate decorated in yellow Christmas tinsel.
  • (16) It was bizarre coming to work: there was the big Christmas tree up in the square, and every set was covered in tinsel and Christmas lights.
  • (17) At full-time golden tinsel exploded from the rafters at the Stade de France and it rained down on to the pitch.
  • (18) His penchant for pinstripe trousers, Cuban heels and chunky jewellery meant Davis stood out from his fellow BBC correspondents, as did the rumours of tattoos, pierced nipples (office nickname: Tinsel Tits) and a Prince Albert, which he has consistently refused to confirm or deny.
  • (19) Look under the tinsel in LA, they say, and there's real tinsel.
  • (20) Sue and Brian Legg, in their 60s, window shopping beneath tinsel banners in the George Yard shopping arcade, couldn't really see what the fuss was about.