Flicker can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| flicker - move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" | ||
| flicker - flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off" | ||
| flicker - shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered" | ||
Noun |
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| flicker - North American woodpecker | ||
| flicker - a momentary flash of light | ||
| flicker - the act of moving back and forth |
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| 1. | noun | To a dog, watching T.V. is a lot like watching and old scratchy silent film because their flicker fusion seems to occur at a rate of 70 to 80Hz. | |
| 2. | noun | Fires for luring fish at night flicker on the silhouette of an island. | |
| 3. | noun | After one last flicker, the candle went out. | |
| 4. | noun | We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune. | |
| 5. | verb | So they see the pictures flicker slower and there for it seems choppy to them. | |
| 6. | verb | This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it. | |
| 7. | verb | Sit down, don't flicker. |
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| noun | |
| To a dog, watching T.V. is a lot like watching and old scratchy silent film because their flicker fusion seems to occur at a rate of 70 to 80Hz. |
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| Fires for luring fish at night flicker on the silhouette of an island. | |
| After one last flicker, the candle went out. | |
| We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune. | |
| verb | |
| So they see the pictures flicker slower and there for it seems choppy to them. |
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| This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it. | |
| Sit down, don't flicker. | |