shimmer

verb · nounB1

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verb
V_es/s
shimmers
V_ing/Gerund
shimmering
V_ed/pp
shimmered
  1. 1.

    (intransitive)To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.

    1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare

    Đồng nghĩa: twinkle, sparkle, glisten, glimmer

  2. 2.

    Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
shimmers
  1. 1.

    A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.

    Đồng nghĩa: glimmer

  2. 2.

    (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.

  3. 3.

    (crime) 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.

    Đồng nghĩa: shim

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From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with schemeren, schimmern.

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