shimmer
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L327642 on Wikidata ↗verb
- emit light, sparkle
- verb of motion?
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/ / /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English shim English -er English shimmer From shim + -er.
- 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
Etymology: From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
- To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
“1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare”
“The shimmering glimpses of a stream”
- Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.