Then Lord John threw a bundle of twigs upon the fire, and their red glare lit up the intent faces of my companions and flickered over the great boughs above our heads. (NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA) Geminga was finally identified in March 1991, when flickering X-rays picked up by Germany’s ROSAT mission revealed the source to be a pulsar spinning 4.2 times a second.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Ī smile flickered over the dark face of the servant, but his features reset themselves instantly into their usual mask of respectful observance. The sputtering wood fire threw out a circle of red flickering light which played over the little group of wayfarers, and showed up every line and shadow upon their faces. Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same. “His life flickered out in the storm,” I said. (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson) (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)īefore a big fire lay Captain Smollett and in a far corner, only duskily flickered over by the blaze, I beheld great heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold. See some light in the darkness, but it may possibly flicker out. Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thunderingīeam shine (emit light be bright, as of the sun or a light)īlink flash twinkle wink winkle (gleam or glow intermittently) Move back and forth (move in one direction and then into the opposite direction)įlicker (the act of moving back and forth) Present simple: I / you / we / they flicker. Motility motion move movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)įlicker (move back and forth very rapidly) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of 'flicker'):Ĭolaptes auratus yellow-shafted flicker yellowhammer (large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail)Ĭolaptes chrysoides gilded flicker (southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck)Ĭolaptes caper collaris red-shafted flicker (western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail)Ĭolaptes genus Colaptes (a genus of Picidae) Pecker peckerwood woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects) Flash (a sudden intense burst of radiant energy)

Flicker definition