Dictionary Definition
flicker
Noun
2 North American woodpecker
Verb
2 shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered" [syn:
flick]
3 flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on
and off" [syn: flick]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪkə(r)
Etymology 1
(American English) woodpeckerTranslations
a short moment
Etymology 2
flicorian.Verb
Translations
to keep going on and off
- Finnish: välkkyä
Extensive Definition
Flicker may refer to any of the following:
Culture
- Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers
- Flicker (Blazing Dragons), a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing Dragons
- Flicker (film) a movie based upon the Theodore Roszak novel expected to be released in 2008
- Flicker (novel), a book by Theodore Roszak
- Flicker (Oz), a candle maker transformed into a candle man by the Wicked Witch of the West appearing in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric Shanower.
- Flicker (pinball table), a 1973 pinball table made by Bally
- Flicker (razor), women's disposable razor by ASR
- Flicker Film Festival, an ongoing film series featuring Super 8 and 16mm short films
- Flicker Records, a record label belonging to Sony
Other
- Flicker (album), Ayria's second album
- Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus Colaptes, namely the Northern Flicker
- Flicker (movie), intermittent darkening of projection screen
- Flicker (screen), a fading between frames that occurs on a cathode ray screen at low refresh rates
- Flicker, light stimulus
- Power Line Flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3
- Regional slang for:
- a remote control device (especially for televisions)
- a Flyswatter
flicker in French: Flicker
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon,
backfire, bake, balefire, be in heat, beacon, beacon fire, beat, beating, bicker, black-and-white film,
blaze, blink, bloom, boil, bonfire, broil, burn, burning ghat, campfire, cartoon, cheerful fire, chiller, choke, cinema, color film, combust, combustion, conflagration, cook, corposant, coruscate, cozy fire,
crackling fire, creepie,
crematory, dance, dancing, death fire, dint, documentary, documentary
film, educational film, feature, fen fire, film, fire, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flash, flashing point, flick, flickering, flickering flame,
flickering light, flip,
flit, flitter, flop, fluctuate, flush, flutter, fluttering, forest fire, fox
fire, fry, funeral pyre,
gasp, glance, glancing light, glare, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glint, glitter, glow, go pitapat, gutter, hint, horror picture, horse opera,
hover, ignis fatuus,
ignition, incandesce, ingle, lambency, lambent flame, light
show, marshfire,
motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, open fire, oscillate, palpitate, palpitation, pant, parch, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, pornographic
film, prairie fire, preview, pulse, pyre, quaver, quiver, quivering, radiate heat,
raging fire, roast,
scald, scintilla, scorch, sea of flames, seethe, shake, sheet of fire, shimmer, shimmer with heat,
short, signal beacon,
silent, silent film,
simmer, skin flick,
slat, smolder, smother, smudge fire, sneak
preview, spaghetti Western, spark, sparkle, splutter, sputter, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, suggestion, sweat, swelter, swing, talkie, talking picture,
three-alarm fire, thriller, throb, toast, trace, trailer, tremble, twinkle, twinkling, twitter, two-alarm fire,
underground film, vestige, vibrate, watch fire, wave, waver, wildfire, witch
fire