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What (who) is Flicker - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Flickering; Flicker (disambiguation)
Flicker
·vi To Flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
II. Flicker ·vi To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
III. Flicker ·noun The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
IV. Flicker ·noun The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus);
- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
flicker
flicker1
¦ verb
1. shine or burn unsteadily and fitfully.
2. (of a feeling) be briefly perceptible.
3. make small, quick movements.
¦ noun an instance of flickering.
Derivatives
flickering adjective &noun
Origin
OE flicorian, flycerian 'to flutter', prob. of Gmc origin.
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flicker2
¦ noun an American woodpecker that often feeds on ants on the ground. [Colaptes auratus (common or northern flicker) and related species.]
Origin
C19: imitative of its call.
flicker
(flickers, flickering, flickered)
1.
If a light or flame flickers, it shines unsteadily.
A television flickered in the corner.
VERB: V
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Flicker is also a noun.
Looking through the cabin window I saw the flicker of flames.
N-COUNT
2.
If you experience a flicker of emotion, you feel that emotion only for a very short time, and not very strongly.
He felt a flicker of regret...
He looked at me, a flicker of amusement in his cold eyes.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n
3.
If something flickers, it makes very slight, quick movements.
In a moment her eyelids flickered, then opened...
A few moments later Mrs Tenney's eyelids flickered open.
VERB: V, V adj
Wikipedia
Flicker
Flicker may refer to:
- Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus Colaptes
- Flicker (screen), a change in brightness between frames that occurs on a cathode-ray screen at low refresh rates
- Flicker (light), a directly visible change in brightness of a light source
- Power-line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3
- Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum.
- Flicker, a guitar tremolo made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s
People
- Tal Flicker (born 1992), Israeli judoka
- Theodore Flicker (1930–2014), American playwright
- Yuval Flicker (born 1955), American mathematician
Popular culture
- Flicker, the sophomore album by Ayria
- Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers
- Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing Dragons
- Flicker (novel), by Theodore Roszak
- Flicker, a candle maker transformed into a candle man appearing in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric Shanower
- Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by Bally
- Flicker Records, a record label belonging to Sony
- Flicker (album), the debut studio album by Niall Horan, or its title track
- The Flicker, an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad
- Flicker (film), a 2008 Canadian film
- "Flicker" (song), a song by Porter Robinson from the album Worlds
- "Flicker", a song by Audio Adrenaline from the album Some Kind of Zombie
Slang
- A remote control device (especially for televisions)
- A flyswatter
Examples of use of Flicker
1. Glass–enclosed candles flicker at regular intervals along the trails.
2. Now!" a third hollered, seeing a flicker of daylight.
3. There was not a flicker of life in his eyes." Says Sharon.
4. Not long after Skelton finally got the microphones working, the lights began to flicker.
5. If a candle were to flicker on the moon, SALT could detect it.