flicker
See also: Flicker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈflɪkə/Category:English 2-syllable words#FLICKERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FLICKER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#FLICKERAudio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈflɪkɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#FLICKERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FLICKER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#FLICKERAudio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)#FLICKERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)/2 syllables#FLICKER
- Homophone: FlickrCategory:English terms with homophones#FLICKER
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#FLICKERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#FLICKER flikeren (“to flutter”), from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#FLICKERCategory:English terms derived from Old English#FLICKER flicerian, flicorian (“to flutter”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#FLICKERCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#FLICKER *flikurōn.
Akin to Saterland Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”), West Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”), Dutch flikkeren (“to flicker, flutter”), German Low German flickern (“to light up, flash, flicker”). Compare Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”), German flackern (“to flicker, flutter”), Old English flēogan (“to fly”).
Noun
flicker (countable and uncountable, plural flickers)Category:English lemmas#FLICKERCategory:English nouns#FLICKERCategory:English uncountable nouns#FLICKERCategory:English countable nouns#FLICKERCategory:English countable nouns#FLICKERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FLICKERCategory:Pages with entries#FLICKERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FLICKER
- An unsteady flash of light.
- the flicker of the dying candleCategory:English terms with usage examples#FLICKER
- the flicker of an old movieCategory:English terms with usage examples#FLICKER
- (figurative) A short moment.
- a flicker of emotionCategory:English terms with usage examples#FLICKER
- a flicker of hopeCategory:English terms with usage examples#FLICKER
- a flicker of recognition passed through my mind.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLICKER
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
Derived terms
Translations
an unsteady flash of light — see also blink
a short moment
Verb
flicker (third-person singular simple present flickers, present participle flickering, simple past and past participle flickered)Category:English lemmas#FLICKERCategory:English verbs#FLICKERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FLICKERCategory:Pages with entries#FLICKERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FLICKER
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#FLICKER) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
- 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- The shadows flicker to and fro.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […]Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#FLICKER) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
- A strong desire to smash up everything in the room kept flickering in his head.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLICKER
- [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
- There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:
- I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, / And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- 1967, Barry Mason (writer), Tom Jones (performer), Delilah
- I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window / I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
- 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FLICKERCategory:English intransitive verbs#FLICKER) To flutter or flap.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
- 1884, Margaret Oliphant, Old Lady Mary:
- But the child saw her; was it possible? He turned his head towards her, and flickered his baby hands, and cooed with that indescribable voice that goes to every woman's heart.Category:English terms with quotations#FLICKER
Derived terms
Translations
to burn or shine unsteadily — see also blink
to keep going on and off — see also blink
Etymology 2
1808, American English, probably echoicCategory:English onomatopoeias#FLICKER of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker. It is also true that the bird vigorously flicks away treebark, woodchips, and ground detritus while feeding, which may possibly explain the name.
Noun
flicker (plural flickers)Category:English lemmas#FLICKERCategory:English nouns#FLICKERCategory:English countable nouns#FLICKERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FLICKERCategory:Pages with entries#FLICKERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FLICKER
- (USCategory:American English#FLICKER) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
Derived terms
terms derived from flicker ("woodpecker")
- Andean flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Andean%20flicker (Colaptes rupicolaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20rupicola)
- Bermuda flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Bermuda%20flicker (Colaptes oceanicusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20oceanicus)
- Campo flicker (Colaptes campestrisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20campestris)
- Caribbean flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Caribbean%20flicker (Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Colaptes%20auratus%20chrysocaulosus)
- Chilean flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Chilean%20flicker (Colaptes pitiusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20pitius)
- Fernandina's flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Fernandina's%20flicker (Colaptes fernandinaeCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20fernandinae)
- gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoidesCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20chrysoides)
- Guatemalan flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Guatemalan%20flicker (Colaptes auratus mexicanoidesCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Colaptes%20auratus%20mexicanoides)
- Pampas flickerCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Pampas%20flicker (Colaptes campestrisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Colaptes%20campestris)
- northern flicker (Colaptes auratus)
- red-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus caferCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Colaptes%20auratus%20cafer)
- yellow-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus auratusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Colaptes%20auratus%20auratus)
Translations
Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes
See also
Etymology 3
From flick + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#FLICKER.
Noun
flicker (plural flickers)Category:English lemmas#FLICKERCategory:English nouns#FLICKERCategory:English countable nouns#FLICKERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FLICKERCategory:Pages with entries#FLICKERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FLICKER
- One who flicks.
- (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#FLICKER) Ellipsis of channel flicker (“remote control”)Category:English ellipses#FLICKER.[1]
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- ↑ UK's TV Licensing authority held a poll that found British people use more than 100 different names for their TV remote, with "flicker" being among the most popular alternative. The results were published on its website here but are no longer accessible. Various news outlets have since reported on it, like CNET.
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