From en.wiktionary.org:
[Flicker]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], [ang], from [en].
Akin to [stq], [fy], [nl], [nds-de]. Compare [ang], [de], [ang].
**** Noun
[~]
1. An unsteady flash of light .
2. [en] A short moment .
3. * [chapter=8]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|flicker fixer |flickerless |flicker noise |flicker show |flickersome
|flicker wheel |flickery |flimmer }}
***** Translations
[an unsteady flash of light]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [flash]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[a short moment]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
2. * [poem=The Death of the Old Year]
3. * [chapter=III]
4. [en] To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter .
5. * [year=1934]
6. * [passage=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.]
7. * [page=13]
8. * 1967 , [Barry Mason] (writer), [Tom Jones (singer)] (performer), _[Delilah (Tom Jones song)]_
9. *: I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window / I saw the FLICKERING shadow of love on her blind
10. * [author=Samira Shackle]
11. [en] To flutter or flap .
12. * [chapter=Palamon and Arcite]
13. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to burn or shine unsteadily]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] [archaic]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to keep going on and off]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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*** Etymology 2
1808, American English, probably [en] of the bird's call, or from the white
spotted plumage which appears to flicker. It is also true that the bird
vigorously flicks away treebark, woodchips, and ground detritus while feeding,
which may possibly explain the name.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] Any of certain small woodpecker s, especially of the genus [Colaptes] .
***** Derived terms
[2]
- [Andean flicker] ( [Colaptes rupicola] )
- [Bermuda flicker] ( [Colaptes oceanicus] )
- Campo flicker ( [Colaptes campestris] )
- [Caribbean flicker] ( [Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus] )
- [Chilean flicker] ( [Colaptes pitius] )
- [Fernandina's flicker] ( [Colaptes fernandinae] )
- gilded flicker ( [Colaptes chrysoides] )
- [Guatemalan flicker] ( [Colaptes auratus mexicanoides] )
- [Pampas flicker] ( [Colaptes campestris] )
- northern flicker ( [Colaptes auratus] )
- red-shafted flicker ( [Colaptes auratus cafer] )
- yellow-shafted flicker ( [Colaptes auratus auratus] )
[col-bottom]
***** Translations
[Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Potawatomi: [pot]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [pedia]
*** Etymology 3
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who flick s.
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]