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
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 2008
Flicker (screen), a fading between frames that occurs on a cathode ray screen at low refresh rates
Flicker Records, a record label belonging to Sony
Flicker Film Festival, an ongoing film series featuring Super 8 and 16mm short films
Flickr, 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
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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