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Definition: Flicker |
FlickerNoun1. A momentary flash of light. 2. North American woodpecker. 3. The act of moving back and forth. Verb1. Move back and forth very rapidly, as of a candle. 2. Shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered". 3. Flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flicker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
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Computing | An undesirable pulsation of a display image on a cathode ray tube. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In computer graphics, an undesirable pulsation of a display image on a cathode-ray tube that usually occurs when the refresh rate is low. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | An impression of fluctuating luminance or colour, occurring when the frequency of the variation of the light stimulus lies between a few hertz and the fusion frequency of the images. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The repetitive voltage variations at a rate and of an amplitude sufficient to induce the phenomenon of flicker in the output of lighting equipment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Undesired form of frequency modulation introduced into the recorded signal by an irregular motion of the recording medium during the recording/reproducing process, the frequency of which is above 10 Hz. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | FLICKER. A drinking glass. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flicker has more than one meaning:
- A flicker is a type of woodpecker
- Flicker was rhythm guitarist for the Manic Street Preachers
- Flicker is a book by Theodore Roszak
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flicker."
Synonyms: FlickerSynonyms: glint (n), spark (n), flick (v), flitter (v), flutter (v), quiver (v), waver (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle. |
Noun: agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; quassation; shuffling c. Verb: twitter, flicker, flutter. | |
Changeableness | Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon. |
Evolution | Fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; AdVerb: pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flicker |
| English words defined with "flicker": Clape, Colaptes auratus, Colaptes chrysoides ♦ detected ♦ Flickered ♦ gilded flicker, gutter ♦ High-holder ♦ pigeon woodpecker ♦ Yellowhammer, yellow-shafted flicker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flicker": bang-bang control ♦ Flicker Fusion, flicker range ♦ proportional control ♦ total continuous spectrum noise ♦ voltage fluctuation. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flicker": Flacker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flicker" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (patcher). |
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Screenplays | Enough, enough, men. Stop, consider, what are you doing? Into the minds of tired and hungry men on both sides, a flicker of doubt began to creep (War and Peace; writing credit: Sergei Bondarchuk; Vasili Solovyov) | |
Lyrics | Watching the candle flicker out in the evening glow (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak) Flicker flicker flicker flam pow pow (Astronomy domine; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Flicker (1965) Flicker Flashbacks No. 7 (1948) Series 1 Flicker Flashbacks No. 1 (1945) Flicker Memories (1941) | |
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 | Agitate; alternate; bob; bounce; buffet; flap; flicker; fluctuate; flutter; heave; jerk; jounce; oscillate; palpitate; pitch; pound; pulsate; pulse; quake; quaver; quiver; ripple; shake; shiver; swing; thrill; throb; thump; tremble; twitch; undulate; vibr. | | Volt; voltage; electricity; spark; atom; beam; fire; flare; flicker; gleam; glint; glitter; glow; hint; jot; nucleus; ray; scintilla; scintillation; scrap; sparkle; spit; trace; vestige; dangerous; glitter; glint; sparkle; sparkling. |
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Conor Cruise O'Brien | Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. |
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| "Flicker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.11% of the time. "Flicker" is used about 397 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.11% | 322 | 16,053 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.09% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.8% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 397 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "flicker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Flicker | Last name | 300 | 24,673 |
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Expressions using "flicker": critical flicker frequency ♦ critical flicker fusion ♦ flicker frequency ♦ Flicker Fusion ♦ flicker of hope ♦ flicker range ♦ gilded flicker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flicker": flicker-free. | |
Ending with "flicker": blood-flicker, chicken-flicker, flea-flicker, ground-flicker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
flicker | 175 | flicker flame bulb | 3 |
northern flicker | 36 | bulb flicker light | 3 |
bird flicker | 16 | cyber flicker | 3 |
flicker record | 15 | flicker ring | 3 |
flicker razor | 10 | flicker free | 3 |
flicker shafted yellow | 8 | drawing flicker free in mfc | 2 |
common flicker | 8 | 98 flicker ie window | 2 |
flicker bulb | 8 | de emission flicker jaeger | 2 |
flicker light | 7 | flicker lantern | 2 |
flicker shaver | 7 | flicker stick | 2 |
flicker woodpecker | 7 | flicker candle | 2 |
flicker monitor | 5 | flicker laptop screen | 2 |
flicker noise | 4 | flicker fusion | 2 |
flicker red shafted | 4 | flicker media | 2 |
flicker screen | 4 | bird flicker picture | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "flicker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rreze (beam, gleam, radius, Ray, shaft), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), regëtij, qukapik (pecker, woodpecker), përflakje, dridhje (didder, dither, fibrillation, flickering, flutter, jarring, jerk, palpitation, pulse, quake, quiver, shake, shaking, shiver, shudder, throb, tremble, trembling, tremolo, tremor, twitch, vibrancy, vibration), dridhem (blink, dither, dodder, flinch, give a start, pulsate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, twiddle, twitch, vibrate, wabble, waver, wince, wobble, writhe). (various references) | |
Arabic | ترجرج, تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), النقار طائر, إضطرب (flurry, simmer, waver), إشتعال (catching fire, ignition, inflammation), رمش (eyelash, flash, flickering), بصيص (glitter, ray, shaft). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трепкане (twinkle, vibration), трепкам (quiver), мъждукане (blinking, glimmer, glimmering), мъждукам (glimmer), мигновен изблик, блещукане (gleam, glimmer, glimmering, scintillation, shimmer, twinkle, twinkling), блещукам (glimmer, glister, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle), пърпане, пърпам (flitter), проблясвам (flash, glimmer, glint, shine through), появявам се (appear, arise, blossom, come, come about, come forward, come into view, come on the scene, issue, manifest, outcrop, rise, show up, start out), полъхвам (puff, waft, whiffle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 閃爍 (twinkling), 忽悠. (various references) | |
Czech | třepotat se, třepotání, plápolat (flame, flare, quiver), plápolání, mrkat (blink, wink), mihotání, kmitat se (waver), kmitání (oscillation, vibration), blikat (blink, flash, gutter, twinkle, wink). (various references) | |
Danish | flutter (flutter), flimren (atmospheric boil, atmospheric shimmer, flickering, flutter, shimmer), flimmer, flicker (flickering), finger (finger), spændingsfluktuation (flicker range, voltage fluctuation), hurtige frekvensfluktuationer (flutter). (various references) | |
Dutch | flikkeren (flare, flash), flakkeren (flare). (various references) | |
Esperanto | flagreti. (various references) | |
Farsi | پرپرزدن , لرزیدن (Dither, Dodder, Quail, Quake, Quiver, Shake, Shiver, Shudder, Throb, Tremble, Trill, Vibrate), سوسوزدن (Blink, Gleam, Glimmer, Shimmer), سوسو (Gleam), جنبش (Braid, Bustle, Cause, Commotion, Jar, Jiggle, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Rock, Stir, Tremor, Vibration), دراهتزازبودن (Tilt). (various references) | |
Finnish | värinä (fibrillation, quiver, shiver, trembling, tremor, vibration), välkyntä (flickering). (various references) | |
French | flicker (flicker range, voltage fluctuation), flottge (flutter), papillotement (flickering), ciller, danser, en flamme (flame, flaring), lueur, oiseau, battement (flapping), palette (flail, flailing hammer, swinging flail), vaciller (flare, flare up), pleurage rapide (flutter), scintillement (flickering, flutter), scintiller (flare, flare up), tension de papillotement (flicker range, voltage fluctuation), tremblement, trembloter, vacillement, osciller. (various references) | |
German | flimmern (flickering), flackern (flare, glint, unsteadiness). (various references) | |
Greek | πτερύγιο (fin, flipper, blade, flap, vane), πτερυγίζω (flutter), εξασθένιση (debilitation), είδοσ σκολοπάκοσ, αναλαμπή (flash, gleam), τρέμω (quaver, quiver, shiver, tremble), τρεμόσβυμα, τρεμόσβημα (flickering), τρεμοσβύνω, τρεμοπαίζω, τιτιβισμός (flutter), τεττιγισμός (flutter), διακύμανση τάσης (flicker range, voltage fluctuation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעפעף (blink, wink), להבליח (lambent, shimmer, twinkle), להבהב (blink, glimmer, singe), לנצנץ (flash, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle), זיק (spark, sparkle), גץ (spark). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lobbanás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercilap-cilap, cilap, berkelip (sparkle (of a gem), twinkle (of stars)). (various references) | |
Italian | vacillare (dither, falter, jiggle, reel, shake, sway, swim, totter, wabble, waver, wobble), sfavillare (sparkle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 閃く (flash), 瞬き (twinkling, wink), フリート街 (experimental unmanned spacecraft, flea market, Fleet Street, flicker test, flip flop, free batting, free lance, free market, free pass, free-hand, free-lancer, fricassee, friction, Friedman, frigate, frigidity, Frisbee), やり方が渋い (Aah!, affluence, Ah!, at ease, calm, Dear me!, exclamation of relief or disappointment, large thing swaying, mildly, mischievous, naughty, Oh dear!, Oh!, reserve, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, room, shake, slow swaying, slowly, softly, stingy ways, swing, swinging, Thank God!, time, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フリッカー , ひらめく (flash), またたき (twinkling, wink), まばたき (twinkling, wink), ゆらゆら (rock, roll, rolling from side to side, shake, slow swaying, swing, swinging, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references) | |
Korean | 흔들림 (swaying, Wiggle, wiggles, wobbling). (various references) | |
Manx | meekey (blink, blinking, flick of eye, peep, twinkle, wink), lossag (flare, fleck of light, Salamander, small flame), falleaysagh (flashing, gleam, gleaming), craa (brandish, dither, dodder, flutter, jog, jolt, judder, quaver, ring, rustle, shake, shiver, shock, sprinkle, tremble, vibrate, warble), chentyn (break, flash, flashing). (various references) | |
Norwegian | flimre, blafre (flap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickerflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tremeluzir (glimmer, glint, glitter, twinkle, whiffle, wink), cintilação (scintillation). (various references) | |
Romanian | fior (jump, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremor), fâlfâi (flap, float, flutter, fly, stream, wave), tremura (cower, dither, falter, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), tremur (palpitation, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shudder, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor), sufla uşor şi cu intermitenţe, se înfiora (crawl, creep, flinch, shudder, startle), pâlpâire (flare), pâlpâi (Bicker, flare, glimmer, waver), bate (beat, hit, strike). (various references) | |
Russian | вспыхивать (burst out, flare, flash), мерцать мерцание (glimmer, shimmer), мерцать (blink, glimmer, scintillate, shimmer, shimmers), мерцание (fibrillation, flickering, glimmer, glimmering, scintillance, scintillation, twinkle, twinkling), мигать (nictitate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | treptaj, trepereti (glisten, pulsate, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, warble), treperenje (dither, flickering, quiver, roll, trembling, vacillation, vibration, warble, wave, winking), plamičak. (various references) | |
Spanish | parpadeo (blink, blinking, flickering, wink). (various references) | |
Swedish | flimmer (flickering), fladdra (flit, flutter). (various references) | |
Thai | เปลวไฟริบหรี่, นกหัวขวาน, สั่นไหว. (various references) | |
Turkish | titremek (dither, dodder, falter, flutter, jerk, judder, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), titreme (chill, dither, judder, pulsation, quake, quaking, quiver, rigor, rigour, shake, shaking, shimmy, shiver, shivering, shudder, the shivers, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, vibration), titrek alev, titrek ışık (flare, jack-a-dandy, shimmer, twinkle, twinkling), titreşmek (Bicker, judder, pulsate, pulse, quiver, tremble, vibrate, waver), hızla ve sessizce önünden geçmek, geçici belirti, alevlenmek (blaze out, blaze up, flame, flare, flare up, rekindle), ürperme (chill, creep, rigor, rigour, the shivers, tremble, tremor, trepidation). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ykjamak (sway, swing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тремтіння (ballism, quaver, shudder, trembling), моргати (blink, nictate, nictitate, wink), мерехтіння (blink, glimpse, twinkle, twinkling, winking), мигтіти (glimmer, twinkle), блимання (blink, flickering, glimmer, shimmer), проблиск (flash, peep, spark, sparkle), дрижати (chatter, didder, dodder, quake, quiver, shiver, tingle, tremble, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ánh sáng lung linh (shimmer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flicker": flickered, flickering, flickeringly, flickers, flickery. (additional references) | |
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"Flicker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Feickert, ficken, fkicker, Flesaker, flice, flicka, Flickan, Flicke, flickier, flickies, flickle, fliker, flinker, glickum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flicker" (pronounced fli"ker) |
| 4 | -l i" k er | clicker, licker, liquor, slicker. |
| 3 | -i" k er | Bicker, Dicker, kicker, picker, quicker, sicker, snicker, sticker, thicker, ticker, vicar, whicker, wicker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fickler. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-k-l-r" | |
-1 letter: fickle, licker. | |
-2 letters: clerk, filer, fleck, flick, flier, icker, kefir, lifer, liker, relic, rifle. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cire, clef, feck, fice, file, fire, flic, keir, kerf, kief, kier, lice, lick, lief, lier, life, like, lire, reck, reif, rice, rick, riel, rife, rile. | |
-4 letters: cel, elf, elk, fer, fie, fil, fir, ice, ick, ilk, ire, irk. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-k-l-r" | |
+1 letter: firelock, flickers, flickery, flockier. | |
+2 letters: firelocks, flickered, frecklier, freckling, frolicked. | |
+3 letters: brickfield, flackeries, flickering, freckliest. | |
+4 letters: brickfields, factorylike, forcepslike, forelocking. | |
+5 letters: flickeringly. | |
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