shimmer
IPA: ʃˈɪmɝ
noun
- A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
- (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
- (crime) A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
verb
- (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
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Examples of "shimmer" in Sentences
- Something shimmered in his room.
- The light is shimmering brightly.
- Winning the Shimmer title is not enough.
- He is the mate of Kiara and father to Shimmer.
- Galead saw the Stone set in the sword shimmer and pale.
- They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten.
- To shimmer or not to shimmer, that is not the question for McCarley.
- It is especially beautiful at night, when the lights of the city shimmer below.
- He is the founder of the all female wrestling promotion Shimmer Women Athletes.
- Time to shimmer and shine, glitter and glow in this season's hottest holiday looks.
- Marine organisms shimmer or glow with metallic and neon colours for various purposes.
- The Christmas Prelude lights still shimmer and February for Lovers discounts are coming.
- The texture of the lipstick is lovely, not too opaque and with slight "wet" shimmer, which is exactly what I like.
- In order to sell flats to people who might not like the idea of council estates, the developers wanted what the architects call "shimmer".
- You type in -war" (knocking the errant hair aside as you strike the A), and watch the word shimmer like a line of phosphorescent battle dust on the PC screen.
- I used a creamier face and body shimmer, which is easier to work with than watery/gel-based products, which are good for the body but hard to work with on the face.
- This dreamy shimmer is a tension that both sustains the poems idealism and exposes the ideological bind of proffering poetry as the thing to be done in political crisis
- As tiny, pretty mega-talent Cher Lloyd stepped on to the X Factor stage last month in shimmer foundation, squashed-spider eyelashes and over-pruned brows, only for Louis Walsh to trill, You're 16?
- Giant honeybees are known to flip their bellies up en masse to create a giant wave called a shimmer, somewhat akin to humans rhythmically throwing their hands in the air in a wave at a football game.
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