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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shimmer
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ When he moved, his silk green shirt shimmered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A faint haze of heat-differential shimmered the lights of town but the thin mist meant visibility was quite good.
▪ He'd reached to click off the light, and the room shimmered again with the faintest light from the moon.
▪ Heat shimmered up from the cars, and the sun glowed red over miles of tract houses.
▪ Never for one moment does this shimmering, simmering emotional desert storm of a film relax its grip on your senses.
▪ Our brick courtyard shimmered with colors.
▪ Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon, their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror.
▪ The August heat shimmered in silence.
▪ Their happiness was palpable; like the pulsing shimmer of a hummingbird, it seemed to radiate the very air.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shimmer

Shimmer \Shim"mer\, n. A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.

TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet apartment.
--Sir W. Scott.

Shimmer

Shimmer \Shim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Shimmering.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to sc[=i]mian, sc[=i]man, to glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. sc[=i]ma a light, brightness, Icel. sk[=i]ma, Goth. skeima a torch, a lantern, and E. shine. [root]157. See Shine, v. i.] To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

The shimmering glimpses of a stream.
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shimmer

"a tremulous light," 1821, from shimmer (v.).

shimmer

Old English scimerian "to glitter, shimmer, glisten, shine," related to (perhaps a frequentative of) scimian "to shine," from Proto-Germanic *skim- (cognates: Swedish skimra, Dutch schemeren "to glitter," German schimmern), from PIE root *skai- "to gleam, to shine" (see shine (v.). Related: Shimmered; shimmering.

Wiktionary
shimmer

n. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer. vb. (context intransitive English) To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.

WordNet
shimmer
  1. n. a weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water" [syn: play]

  2. v. shine with a weak or fitful light; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight"

  3. give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

Wikipedia
Shimmer (Bitter Grace album)

Shimmer is New York City's Bitter Grace's long-awaited follow up to God and the Abyss. While Shimmer did not take as long to release, seven years to the twelve it took to finish the previous, the band still underwent line-up changes through the period of recording and releasing this album, however not as severely. Both bassists recorded on this album have left the band, though one of the guitarists that has been recorded here eventually returned in late 2005 just prior to its release after a hiatus.

The difference in sound between God and the Abyss and Shimmer is striking, with the new direction of the band adding more elements of electronic dance music and a generally dancier sound. Keyboards are more prominent than before and the sound is less garage-centric and more melodic.

The album itself is not released yet. Some tracks have been available for a while online and two initial singles, "Shimmering" and "Slave", have been receiving college and Internet radio airplay. Shimmer tells a modern-day gothic fairy tale about "the very clever boy, who was really never quite that clever" and the tracks themselves lead the story along.

Shimmer

Shimmer may refer to:

  • Shimmer (play), a 1988 play by John O'Keefe
  • Shimmer (comics), a DC Comics super-villain
  • Shimmer (novel), by Eric Barnes
  • Shimmer Magazine, or Shimmerzine, a speculative fiction magazine
  • "Shimmer" (song), a 1998 song by the band Fuel
  • Shimmer (Bitter Grace album), 2005
  • Shimmer (Sal Paradise album), 1985
  • Shimmer (Surgery album), 1994
  • Shimmer, a genie with pink hair in Shimmer and Shine
  • Shimmer Women Athletes, a female wrestling company
  • "Shimmer", an episode of the first season of the TV series Smallville
  • New Shimmer, a Saturday Night Live parody product notable for being "a floor wax and a dessert topping"
Shimmer (comics)

Shimmer (real name Selinda Flinders) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe.

Shimmer (song)

"Shimmer" is Fuel's first single from their album Sunburn. It was released on August 25, 1998.

Written by Carl Bell, the single peaked at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts, #11 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #37 on the Adult Top 40 chart and at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Shimmer (play)

Shimmer is a 1988 award-winning one-man play by American playwright John O'Keefe. It is a solo performance, portraying multiple characters, that describes life on a harsh juvenile detention farm in the Midwest in the 1950s.

Shimmer (novel)

Shimmer is a novel from Unbridled Books. Eric Barnes (born February 28, 1968) is an American author of the novel Shimmer as well as the author of numerous short stories, including stories published in North Atlantic Review, Prairie Schooner, The Northwest Review, Raritan and other publishers of short literary fiction. thumb

Shimmer (Surgery album)

Shimmer is the second album by Surgery, released on April 5, 1994 through Atlantic Records.

Shimmer (Sal Paradise album)

Shimmer is a 1985 album by Sal Paradise, released on the Arista record label (206 156-620). The music broke new musical ground in the 'World' category by fusing mostly Moroccan beats with Moog synthesizers and strong English church bell-like choruses. The music became famous in Europe when it was taken up by Eckhart Schmidt as the soundtrack to his film Die Story, which was the second biggest grossing film in Germany that year.

Usage examples of "shimmer".

They crossed a noble old bridge with seven spans, water sparkling and shimmering below, and passed under the archway of the ring wall.

Then an astoundingly beautiful young woman emerged through the bead curtain, which shimmered and danced behind her as she descended the steps.

There were shimmering gleams of pearly white and ivory yellow, under beardy trails of moss old as the marble out of which it grew.

Naturally everyone in the lobby took note of us-not because we were blood-sucking immortals bent on destroying two of our kind on the fifteenth floor, but because we were exceedingly and severely gorgeous, especially Mona, wrapped in feathers and shimmering fabric and poised atop a pair of breakneck heels.

Beauty had planted there spilt over the corners of the beds at their feet, and the roses bloomed everywhere round them, silhouetted in the faint light, and the white roses were shimmers in the gloom.

She wanted freedom, a wide horizon, the great winds, the great sun, the terrible spaces, the glowing, shimmering radiance, the hot, entrancing moons and bloomy, purple nights of Africa.

Whatever it was that he had added to the band continued to augment all the music for all the subsequent acts, with jingles, rat-a-tats, hollow clunks, brassy clashes and strange, unearthly shimmers of sound.

House had won, that his hopes were satisfied, that the Buller crowd had been routed, that the cup would shimmer on the mantelpiece.

Ceratopetalums and burrawangs, and across the shimmering surface of the lake above the now hazy sand-dunes and beach to the wide, flat, blue sea, met the admiring gaze of the men.

It had swept out and up and back, flying slowly and quietly, turning its wings a drab camouflaged dun, hiding out against the clouds, to pounce now, appearing in a sudden burst of dark colours, a shimmering slick of hypnagogic patterns.

It was so beautiful at times it took your breath away - saltbush, bluebush, a whole world of native shrubs and grasses, all tough enough to exist in the harsh arid heat of this outback country, and the mallee and the ghost gums shimmering their leaves in the wind, shading the ground from the sun.

Her stilled quiet stayed absolute, the linen mantled over her as freezing white as the shimmer off a distant ice field.

Between the slope and the gleaming curve of the river the marshland shimmered in heat-haze, distorting the shapes of the men who laboured at the ditches and the tall column of the siege tower the Emperor had ordered brought in so that he could observe their progress.

It resembled a giant mastiff with black-crusted fangs and a shimmering coat of maggots.

Her garment: it was of the shimmering silver micromesh of Unbreakable Continuity.