shimmer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
    — I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
  2. 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.
  3. A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
    — As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
动词 v.
  1. To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly. intransitive
    — 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
  2. 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.

词形变化

shimmers present,singular,third-person shimmering participle,present shimmered participle,past shimmered past shimmers plural shimmers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ashimmer shimmerer shimmer stick shimmery

词源

词源 1
From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English shim
English -er
English shimmer
From shim + -er.
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