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 poem’s 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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