Flicker

Noun



 * 1) 🇺🇸 A certain type of small woodpecker, especially of the genus Colaptes
 * 2) An unsteady flash of light.
 * 3) A short moment.

Verb

 * 1)  To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light.
 * 2)  To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
 * 3) * 1898,, Chapter 3
 * There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.
 * 1) * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction.

Adjectives for Flicker
curious; small; tiny; rapid; abrupt; unseen.

Verbsfor Flicker
emit—; observe—; reduce to—; repeat—; shake with—; vibrate in—; —annoys; — dies out; —disturbs; —flames; —mottles; — remains; —warms; —warns; —wavers.

Adverbs for Flicker
inscrutably; involuntarily; fitfully; rapidly; incessantly; repeatedly; mysteriously; interminably.

Synonyms for Flicker
waver, fluctuate, flare, glint, quiver, shimmer, flutter.

Antonyms for Flicker
shine steadily, glow.

Thesaurus
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, backfire, bake, balefire, be in heat, beacon, beacon fire, beat, beating, bicker, black-and-white film, blaze, blink, bloom, boil, bonfire, broil, burn, burning ghat, campfire, cartoon, cheerful fire, chiller, choke, cinema, color film, combust, combustion, conflagration, cook, corposant, coruscate, cozy fire, crackling fire, creepie, crematory, dance, dancing, death fire, dint, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, fen fire, film, fire, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flash, flashing point, flick, flickering, flickering flame, flickering light, flip, flit, flitter, flop, fluctuate, flush, flutter, fluttering, forest fire, fox fire, fry, funeral pyre, gasp, glance, glancing light, glare, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glint, glitter, glow, go pitapat, gutter, hint, horror picture, horse opera, hover, ignis fatuus, ignition, incandesce, ingle, lambency, lambent flame, light show, marshfire, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, open fire, oscillate, palpitate, palpitation, pant, parch, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, pornographic film, prairie fire, preview, pulse, pyre, quaver, quiver, quivering, radiate heat, raging fire, roast, scald, scintilla, scorch, sea of flames, seethe, shake, sheet of fire, shimmer, shimmer with heat, short, signal beacon, silent, silent film, simmer, skin flick, slat, smolder, smother, smudge fire, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, spark, sparkle, splutter, sputter, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, suggestion, sweat, swelter, swing, talkie, talking picture, three-alarm fire, thriller, throb, toast, trace, trailer, tremble, twinkle, twinkling, twitter, two-alarm fire, underground film, vestige, vibrate, watch fire, wave, waver, wildfire, witch fire

Etymology 1
1808, American English, probably echoic of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker.

Etymology 2
From flikeren: from  flicerian:, flicorian:. Akin to Dutch flikkeren:.

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 * : scintiller
 * : 揺らめく (ゆらめく, yurameku)