FLICKER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Flicker

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/flˈɪkər/ Listen

noun

Flicker n.

The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.

(Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. "The cackle of the flicker among the oaks."

verb

Flicker v. i. (past & past part. flickered; pres. part. flickering)

To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. "And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing."

To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. "The shadows flicker to fro."

See images of 'Flicker'

Etymology of 'Flicker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Flicker" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the first flicker of the acetylene through a maze of hurrying figures, but as his eyes grew accustomed to the light, the plot would thicken: books orderly and disorderly, on bracketed shelves, cameras great and small in motley confusion, guns and a gramophone-horn, serpentine ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... flicker of a smile crosses her lips. She lays her knitting on her knee for an instant, that she may the more readily let her tapered fingers droop until they touch the pale brow of the child at her feet; then she resumes it again, with a face calm ...

— Rossmoyne • Unknown

... compartment of the flyer, and before us lay the bodies of eight children. The beetle lifted the first one, a little girl, up until his many-faceted eyes looked full into the closed ones of the child. There was a flicker of an eyelash, a trace of returning color, and then a scream of terror from the child. The beetle set the girl down and Jim bent ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... silver plates, the glowing rubies, the glinting emeralds, made a picture of fabulous riches that even he could not ignore. But at the upward slide of the door his eyes left the richness of it without a flicker; he waited for the heavy velvet hangings to be drawn, and when Dolores's eyes sought his they surprised his deep, ardent gaze fastened full on herself and not upon what might next ...

— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... a troublesome tooth) that here was a chance come of feeding, a chance at last of feeding. For the man on the cliff, the despairing watchman, weary of fastening his eyes upon the sea, through constant fog and drizzle, at length had discovered the well-known flicker, the glassy flaw, and the hovering of gulls, and had run along Weighing Lane so fast, to tell his good news in the village, that down he fell and broke his leg, exactly opposite the tailor's shop. And this was on St. ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

More quotes...