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Definition: Shimmering |
ShimmeringAdjective1. Glistening tremulously; "the shimmering surface of the lake"; "a dress of shimmery satin". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shimmering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: ShimmeringSynonyms: shimmering(a) (adj), shimmery (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shimmering |
| English words defined with "shimmering": shimmer, shimmery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shimmering": luster mottling ♦ MPEG-1. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "shimmering": Shimmer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) | |
Lyrics | Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES) | |
Tongue Twisters | Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shimmering Light (1978) | |
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| "Pearl Harbor Bow" by Nate Velasquez Commentary: "The sun shimmering on Pearl Harbor. Taken from a submarine with the US flag on it's bow." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He looked out over the fields, at the shimmering air, and gathering his gum into his cheek, out of the way, he spat out the window |
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Rod Steiger | Well, I'll put it as politely as I can. It's like being in a bowl of yellow Jell-O made out of excrement and you're in the middle of it and it's shimmering all around you. And nothing comes in and nothing goes out and you don't care. |
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| "Shimmering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 49.66% of the time. "Shimmering" is used about 147 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 49.66% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 48.3% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
shimmering | 5 |
realty sands shimmering | 4 |
body lotion shimmering | 4 |
prudential realty sands shimmering | 4 |
prudential sands shimmering | 3 |
sands shimmering | 2 |
invitation shimmering square | 2 |
lotion shimmering | 2 |
in many shimmering spot symptom vision | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shimmering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | متلألئ (dazzling, gleamy, glistening, glittering, radiant, shining, sparkling). (various references) | |
French | chatoyant. (various references) | |
German | schimmernd (gleaming, glimmering, lustrous, opalescent). (various references) | |
Greek | που λαμπυρίζει. (various references) | |
Italian | scintillante (lambent, scintilating, sparkling, twinkling), luccicante (glittering, twinkling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 糸遊 (shimmering of hot air), 水明 (light shimmering on water). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいめい (blowing, light shimmering on water), いとゆう (shimmering of hot air). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immeringshay.(various references) | |
Russian | мерцать мерцание мерцающий. (various references) | |
Spanish | trémulo (shimmery, tremulant, tremulous), tornasolado (shot), reluciente (aglimmer, Orient, oriental, shimmery, translucent). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanardöner (iridescent, opalescent, shot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Shimmering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shimmeringly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shimmering" (pronounced shi"mering) |
| 5 | -i" m er i ng | glimmering, simmering. |
| 4 | -m er i ng | clamoring, hammering, murmuring. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-m-m-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: immersing, immeshing, simmering. | |
-2 letters: remising, shimming. | |
-3 letters: gimmies, heiring, hemming, hingers, megrims, menhirs, meshing, mingier, rimming, shimmer, shinier. | |
-4 letters: gimmes, gimmie, grimes, hemins, hieing, hinger, hinges, hiring, imines, immesh, immies, inmesh, megrim, menhir, mimers, miming, miners, minims, minish, miring, neighs, nigher, reigns, renigs, resign, riming, rising, sering, shiner, shrine, sigher, signer, simmer, singer, siring. | |
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