Flicker vs Astound - What's the difference?
flicker | astound |
An unsteady flash of light.
A short moment.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 (lb) To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light.
* (1809-1892)
*:The shadows flicker to and fro.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.
(lb) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.3:
*:There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.
*1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
*:The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction.
To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
As verbs the difference between flicker and astound
is that flicker is (lb) to burn or shine unsteadily to burn or shine with a wavering light while astound is to astonish, bewilder or dazzle.As a noun flicker
is an unsteady flash of light or flicker can be (us) a certain type of small woodpecker, especially of the genus colaptes or flicker can be one who flicks.As an adjective astound is
(obsolete) stunned; astounded; astonished.flicker
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
