Flicker

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[编辑] GRE 红宝书

  • v.闪烁, 摇曳
  • [英] v.闪烁, 摇曳 ( to burn or shine unsteadily)
  • [记] 和flick ( 轻弹) 一起记
  • [例] The wind blew the flickering candle out.

[编辑] Webster Collegiate

I. verb (flickered; flickering)

  • Etymology: Middle English flikeren, from Old English flicorian
  • Date: before 12th century
  • intransitive verb
    • 1. to move irregularly or unsteadily ; flutter
    • 2. to burn or shine fitfully or with a fluctuating light <a candle flickering in the window>
    • 3. to appear briefly
  • transitive verb
    • 1. to cause to flicker
    • 2. to produce by flickering
  • ? flickeringly adverb

II. noun

  • Date: 1822
  • 1.
    • a. an act of flickering
    • b. a sudden brief movement
    • c. a momentary quickening <a flicker of anger>
    • d. a slight indication ; hint <a flicker of recognition>
  • 2.
    • a. a wavering light
    • b. a repeated momentary defect in a cathode-ray tube image caused especially by slow scanning of the screen
  • 3. movie — often used in plural
  • ? flickery adjective

III. noun

  • Etymology: probably imitative of its call
  • Date: 1809
  • a large barred and spotted North American woodpecker (Colaptes auratus) with a brown back that commonly forages on the ground for ants — compare red-shafted flicker, yellow-shafted flicker


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