Crossword-Solution: FLICKER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flicker | v. i. | To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. |
| Flicker | v. i. | To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. |
| Flicker | n. | The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame. |
| Flicker | n. | The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FLICKER | anagram | FICKLER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
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greedy person
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Sentences with FLICKER (5)
The cottonwood trees were a-flicker with sticky, yellow little leaves, and the feathery tamarisks were in pink bud.
Down they went toward the pits beneath the structure, and at a safe distance behind I followed the flicker of their torch.
Sometimes he smiled, and it was good to see; but when he straightened himself up like a liberty-pole, and the lightning begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows, you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards.
Was not he, too--he thought naively--a poor Tarzan of the advertising jungle, lost among the elephants and alligators of commerce, and sighing for this dainty and unattainable vision of girlhood that had burst upon his burning gaze! He stole a perilous side-glance at her profile, and saw the racing flicker of the screen reflected in tiny spangles of light that danced in her eyes.
The exhibition of the card with the scrawl of green ink awoke a flicker of life in the parchment face of the depressed retainer, and it was with a certain shaky courtesy that he suggested that the strangers should remain.
Quotes with FLICKER (3)
I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else. I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great,…
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2006–2021).