S vs Flicker - What's the difference?
s | flicker |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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 a letter s
is the letter s with a.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 a verb flicker is
(lb) to burn or shine unsteadily to burn or shine with a wavering light.s
Translingual
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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.}}