Flicker



GRE Barron

解释

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.

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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