shimmer
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shimmer¹
- /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪmə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
verb shimmers · shimmering · shimmered
- To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly. 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
- Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
noun shimmers
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A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
Similar: glimmer
- A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time. As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
shimmer²
- /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪmə(ɹ)
noun shimmers
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A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
Similar: shim
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: play, glimmer, gleam, flimmer, twinkle, glitter, blink, scintillate, wink, glint, glister, glisten, sparkle, skimmer, simper, glance
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verb to shine with a veiled light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer
| Español | titilar, cabrillear, centellear, resplandecer, centellar, escintilar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 揺らめく yurameku, 光り輝く hikarikagayaku, 煌めく kirameku, 瞬く matataku |
| 中文 | 閃閃發光 /闪闪发光 |
| हिन्दी | चमक camak |
| Français | chatoyer |
| Deutsch | schimmern |
| Italiano | luccicare, rilucere |
| Ελληνικά | λαμπυρίζω lampyrízo, τρεμοφέγγω tremoféngo |
| Русский | мерца́ть mercátʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | lung linh |
noun faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer
| हिन्दी | चमक camak |
|---|---|
| Français | chatoyement, chatoiement |
| Deutsch | Schimmer, Schimmern |
| Italiano | luccichio |
| Ελληνικά | λαμπύρισμα lampýrisma, μαρμαρυγή marmarygí |
| Русский | мерца́ние mercánije |
| Tiếng Việt | lung linh |
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