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- verb Present participle of
flicker . - noun A short, uncertain burst.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shining unsteadily
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Examples
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The guitar flickering is interesting – maybe make one of them a semi-acoustic so they show different personalities?.
Seven Seven Eighty Two (finished) « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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Then you pan to the motel sign and it says (in flickering neon) "No DirecTV".
Stay Classy: DirecTV’s Poltergeist Commerical with Dead Heather O’Rourke | /Film 2008
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Ads for senso-cocktails followed picotech news summaries in flickering chartreuse Mandarin characters down his sleeves.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Tonight, though, our middleaged faces glowed in flickering candlelight and the cold reflection of new blue snow.
The snow falling faintly M-mv 2005
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He stopped, the word flickering back and forth between Harpist in the Wind 135 two meanings in his mind.
Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979
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Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University, the Netherlands, argues that increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather - which modellers call "flickering" - could suggest a big change is imminent.
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· updated internal browser to fix title flickering and slow loading of sites with iframes
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The screen feels weird to look at right now, and I’m not sure if the flickering is because of the monitor or my eyes.
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The screen feels weird to look at right now, and I’m not sure if the flickering is because of the monitor or my eyes.
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By the way, as I stepped outside the theater at intermission, an usher in flickering red devil horns (like those worn by the cast in one of the many finales; and yes, they’re for sale) asked, “Smoking or fresh air?”
London Theater Journal: Take That, a New Twist on Jukebox Musicals - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
Related Words
synonyms (174)
Words with the same meaning
- 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
- glimmering
- 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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