英语词汇“shimmer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	shimmer
释义	shim·mer I. \ˈshimə(r)\ verb (shimmered ; shimmered ; shimmering \-m(ə)riŋ\ ; shimmers) Etymology: Middle English schimeren, schemeren, from Old English scimerian; akin to Middle Low German schēmeren to get dark, German schimmern to glimmer, Old English scīmian to shine, grow dark, scīma ray, light, brightness — more at shim *intransitive verb* 1. : to shine with a tremulous or fitful light : gleam faintly : glimmer < the street lights shimmered behind the veil of snow — Morley Callaghan > < by moonlight its powdery sands shimmer like snow — D.L.Graham > 2. : to reflect a wavering sometimes distorted visual image < heat waves shimmered before our eyes — F.P.Conant > *transitive verb* : to cause to shimmer < the night breeze … stirred the leaves on trees, shimmering them in the moonlight — Stuart Cloete > II. noun (-s) 1. : a fitful, tremulous light : glimmer : a subdued sparkle or sheen : a scintillating effect < the faint shimmer of heat lightning — R.P.Warren > < the shimmer of young foliage — L.P.Smith > < enough to give a shimmer of danger to the atmosphere — Ellery Sedgwick > 2. : a wavering sometimes distorted visual image usually produced by a reflection from heat waves < the slate roofs sent shimmers up … in the glare — Elizabeth Bowen > < a constant shimmer of heat over wide concrete highways — S.W.Matthews > III. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: shim (II) + -er (freq. suffix) 1. : shim 1 2. : to fit a shim between surfaces of (work) IV. noun (-s) Etymology: shim (III) + -er (n. suffix) 1. a. : one that shims b. : shim 2. : one that inserts shims
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