Flicker

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wavering; unsteady.
  • noun. The act of flickering or fluttering; a wavering or fluctuating gleam, as of a candle; a flutter.
  • noun. Specifically, in psychology, an unstable visual perception, occasioned by the intermittence or intensive fluctuation of stimuli.
  • noun. The popular name of the golden-winged woodpecker, Colaptes auratus, a very common and handsome woodpecker of the United States, and of other species of the same genus, as the Mexican or red-shafted flicker, C. mexicanus, or the gilded flicker, C. chrysoides.
  • To flutter, as a bird; vibrate the wings rapidly.
  • To fluctuate or waver, as the light of a torch in the wind; undergo rapid and irregular changes.
  • To scintillate; sparkle.
  • To act lovingly; bestow caresses.
  • Synonyms Glimmer, Gleam, etc. See glare, intransitive verb
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
  • intransitive verb. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire.
  • noun. The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness.
  • noun. The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A certain type of small woodpecker, especially of the genus Colaptes
  • noun. An unsteady flash of light.
  • noun. A short moment.
  • verb. To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light.
  • verb. To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. North American woodpecker
  • verb. flash intermittently
  • verb. move back and forth very rapidly
  • noun. the act of moving back and forth
  • noun. a momentary flash of light
  • verb. shine unsteadily
  • Word Usage
    "As the sun set that evening, I sat back into the arms of the substantial, saturated air, and watched the fireflies flicker from the comforts of a lawn chair."
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    beam  blink  flash  motility  motion  
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    bicker  bricker  clicker  dicker  kicker  
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    flare  flash  flush  flutter  gasp  
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