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flickering
n. blinking, glimmering; rapid back and forth movement, fluttering
 
adj. blinking, shimmering
 
flicker
v. flash, twinkle, glimmer; quick back and forth movement; flutter, quiver


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Flicker
Flicker may mean:Flicker (razor), women's disposable razor by ASRFlicker (movie), intermittent darkening of projection screen  Northern Flicker, a type of woodpeckerFlicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street PreachersFlicker (novel), a book by Theodore RoszakFlicker (film) a movie based upon above mentioned book expected to be released in 2008Flicker (screen), a fading between frames that occurs on a cathode ray screen at low refresh ratesFlicker Records, a record label belonging to SonyFlicker Film Festival, an ongoing film series featuring Super 8 and 16mm short filmsFlickr, a digital photo sharing website and serviceFlicker (pinball table), a 1973 pinball table made by BallyFlicker, a candle maker transformed into a candle man by the Wicked Witch of the West appearing in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric Shanower.Flicker (Blazing Dragons), a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing DragonsFlicker, light stimulusPower Line Flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3
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flickering
Adjective
1. shining unsteadily
(synonym) aflicker(p)
(similar) unsteady

 
flicker
Noun
1. a momentary flash of light
(synonym) spark, glint
(hypernym) flash
(derivation) flick
2. North American woodpecker
(hypernym) woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker
(hyponym) yellow-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus, yellowhammer
(member-holonym) Colaptes, genus Colaptes
3. the act of moving back and forth
(synonym) waver, flutter
(hypernym) motion, movement, move, motility
(derivation) waver, flitter, flutter, quiver
Verb
1. move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered"
(synonym) waver, flitter, flutter, quiver
(hypernym) move back and forth
(derivation) waver, flutter
2. shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered"
(synonym) flick
(hypernym) shine, beam
(derivation) spark, glint
3. flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off"
(synonym) flick
(hypernym) flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle
(derivation) spark, glint


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flickering
Synonyms and related words:
ablaze, adrift, afire, aflame, aflicker, afloat, aglow, alight, alternating, amorphous, ardent, bickering, blazing, blinking, brief, brisk, broken, burning, candent, candescent, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy, comburent, cometary, conflagrant, dancing, desultory, deviable, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, fleet, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, fuming, giddy, glowing, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, ignescent, ignited, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, inflamed, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jerky, kindled, lambent, live, living, lurching, mazy, mercurial, meteoric, moody, nonuniform, on fire, patchy, playing, quick, quivering, quivery, rambling, reeking, restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scintillant, scintillating, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short, short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, shuffling, smoking, smoldering, snatchy, sparking, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, speedy, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, stroboscopic, swift, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unextinguished, unfixed, unmethodical, unmetrical, unpredictable, unquenched, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, vacillating, vagrant, variable, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly
  

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