This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it.
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Flicker
//ˈflɪkə//
Synonyms for "flicker" (202 found)
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Translations
120 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- طَرْفَة noun (a short moment)
- وَمِيض noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- وَمْضَة noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- وَمْضَة noun (a short moment)
Armenian
2 entries- ամերիկյան փայտփորիկ noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
- նշույլ noun (a short moment)
Basque
1 entries- ñirñir noun (an unsteady flash of light)
Bulgarian
4 entries- блещукане noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- мъждукане noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- блещукам verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- мъждукам verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Catalan
4 entries- pampalluguejar verb (to keep going on and off)
- parpellejar verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- pipellejar verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- vacil·lar verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 搖曳 /摇曳 verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- 閃爍 /闪烁 verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Danish
4 entries- flimren noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- glimt noun (a short moment)
- blinke verb (to keep going on and off)
- flimre verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Esperanto
1 entries- flagri verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Finnish
4 entries- häivähdys noun (a short moment)
- kultatikka noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
- lepatus noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- väläys noun (a short moment)
French
4 entries- papillotement noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- scintillement noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- papilloter verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- scintiller verb (to keep going on and off)
Georgian
4 entries- აელვარება noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- ბჟუტვა noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- ბრწყინვა noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- გაელვება noun (an unsteady flash of light)
German
4 entries- Flackern noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- Flimmern noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- Goldspecht noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
- flackern verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Greenlandic
2 entries- angaluppoq verb (to keep going on and off)
- anorliorpoq verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Hungarian
1 entries- küllő noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
Italian
4 entries- fremito noun (a short moment)
- guizzo noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- tremolio noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- guizzare verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Japanese
1 entries- 揺らめく verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Māori
4 entries- tiritiri noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- kōpura verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- pūrēhua verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- teretere verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Persian
2 entries- سو سو زدن verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- لپیدن verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
Polish
4 entries- błysk noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- dzięcioł noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
- mgnienie noun (a short moment)
- migać verb (to keep going on and off)
Portuguese
4 entries- bruxuleio noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- instante noun (a short moment)
- bruxulear verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- piscar verb (to keep going on and off)
Potawatomi
1 entries- wesawangé noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
Romanian
4 entries- clipă noun (a short moment)
- licăr noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- licărire noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- sclipire noun (an unsteady flash of light)
Russian
4 entries- вспы́шка noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- дя́тел noun (Small woodpecker of the genus Colaptes)
- мгнове́ние noun (a short moment)
- мерца́ние noun (an unsteady flash of light)
Spanish
4 entries- parpadeo noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- centellear verb (to keep going on and off)
- parpadear verb (to burn or shine unsteadily)
- parpadear verb (to keep going on and off)
Swedish
4 entries- flimmer noun (an unsteady flash of light)
- glimt noun (a short moment)
- ögonblick noun (a short moment)
- blinka verb (to keep going on and off)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мерехті́ння noun (an unsteady flash of light)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Fires for luring fish at night flicker on the silhouette of an island.
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After one last flicker, the candle went out.
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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.
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