shimmer
A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shiningA faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
» The ocean waves shimmer in the sunlight.
Meaning
3 sensesA faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
Schimmer, Schimmern
мерца́ниеmercánije
мерехті́нняmerextínnja
A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
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.
- a weak and tremulous light
Examples
22 sentencesThe ocean waves shimmer in the sunlight.
The silk dress shimmers in the light.
The crow's feathers shimmered with black iridescence.
Her black silk blouse shimmered in the light.
The shimmer of the city lights was mesmerizing.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
From shim + -er.
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