Meaning

3 senses
  1. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.

    Schimmer, Schimmern

    мерца́ниеmercánije

    мерехті́нняmerextínnja

  2. A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.

  3. 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.

More definitions
  • a weak and tremulous light

Examples

22 sentences
  1. The ocean waves shimmer in the sunlight.

  2. The silk dress shimmers in the light.

  3. The crow's feathers shimmered with black iridescence.

  4. Her black silk blouse shimmered in the light.

  5. The shimmer of the city lights was mesmerizing.

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer:
Русский
By meaning 1
faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer:

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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Forms

plural: shimmers
Singularshimmer
Pluralshimmers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a weak and tremulous light:play

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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