Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - shimmer
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Shimmer
shimmer
I. verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English schimeren, from Old English scimerian; akin to Old English scinan to shine — more at shine Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light ; glimmer 2. to reflect a wavering sometimes distorted visual image transitive verb to cause to ~ Synonyms: see flash II. noun Date: 1821 1. a light that ~s ; subdued sparkle or sheen ; glimmer 2. a wavering sometimes distorted visual image usually resulting from heat-induced changes in atmospheric refraction • ~y adjective
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v. & n. --v.intr. shine with a tremulous or faint diffused light. --n. such a light. Derivatives shimmeringly adv. shimmery adj. Etymology: OE scymrian f. Gmc: cf. SHINE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мерцание; мерцающий свет the first shimmer of the moonlight —- первые блики лунного света shimmer of the truth —- проблеск истины 2. мерцать; блестеть the stars shimmered through the mist —- звезды мерцали сквозь туман the frozen ponds shimmered like polished steel —- замерзшие пруды блестели как полированная сталь ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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(shimmers, shimmering, shimmered) If something shimmers, it shines with a faint, unsteady light or has an unclear, unsteady appearance. The lights shimmered on the water... VERB: V • Shimmer is also a noun. ...a shimmer of starlight. N-SING SHIMMY (shimmies, shimmying, shimmied) If you shimmy, you dance or move in a way that involves shaking your hips and shoulders from side to side. Dancers shimmied in the streets of New Orleans... VERB: V ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ v to shine with a soft light that looks as if it shakes slightly (The lake shimmered in the moonlight.) - shimmer n (the shimmer of the desert air in the midday heat) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. scimerian, related to scimian "to shine," also "grow dark," and scinan (see shine). Ultimately from P.Gmc. *skim-. The noun is 1821, from the verb. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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