flicker
f li ker
- n a momentary flash of light
- n North American woodpecker
- n the act of moving back and forth
- v move back and forth very rapidly
the candle flickered - v shine unsteadily
The candle flickered - v flash intermittently
- The intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing .
- He never knew which ones until he sat down and searched for a flicker of life on the screen.
- CFLs have come a long way since they were first introduced in the mid-'90s (they don't flicker as much when you turn them on, for one thing), but because each bulb still contains 5 .