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Yellow-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus) (credit: B.M. Shaub)

Any of six species of New World woodpeckers (genus Colaptes) noted for spending much time on the ground eating ants. The sticky saliva of the flicker is alkaline, perhaps to counteract the formic acid that ants secrete. Its bill is more slender than that of most woodpeckers and is slightly down-curved. Most flickers have a white rump, black breast band, and varied head markings, and most are about 13 in. (33 cm) long.

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An irregular sequence of frames in a movie or video image. The first flicker effect came from movie projectors that were out of synchronization with the film frames. See judder, interlace and flicker fusion rate.

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verb

1. To move quickly, lightly, and irregularly like a bird in flight: flit, flitter, flutter, hover. See repetition.
2. To shine with intermittent gleams: blink, flash, glimmer, twinkle, wink. See continue/stop/pause, light/darkness.

noun

A sudden quick light: blink, coruscation, flash, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint, spark¹, twinkle, wink. See light/darkness.

Definition: glimmer
Antonyms: burn steadily

• Other land birds
• Television Technology - flicker: fluctuations in picture

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Flicker may refer to any of the following:

• Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus Colaptes
• Flicker (screen), a fading between frames that occurs on a cathode-ray screen at low refresh rates
• Power line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3
• Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum.
• Flicker, a guitar tremolo made by ESP Guitars in the late 70s and early 80s

Popular culture

• Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers
• Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing Dragons
• Flicker (novel), a book by Theodore Roszak
• Flicker, a candle maker transformed into a candle man appearing in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric Shanower.
• Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by Bally
• Flicker Film Festival, an ongoing film series featuring Super 8 and 16mm short films
• Flicker Records, a record label belonging to Sony
• Flicker (album), Ayria's second album
• The Flicker, an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad
• FLicKeR (film), written and directed by Nik Sheehan and produced by Maureen Judge and Silva Basmajian (National Film Board of Canada)

Slang

• A remote control device (especially for televisions)
• A flyswatter

See also

• Flickr, a digital photo sharing website and service
• Flicka, a 2006 film based on the book My Friend Flicka
• Flick (disambiguation)

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. intr. - blafre, glimte, flagre
v. tr. - få til at blafre, få til at glimte
n. - blafren, glimt, trækning

2.
n. - amerikansk flagspætte

Nederlands (Dutch)
flikkeren, (doen) trillen, laten flikkeren, flikkering, trilling, ivoorsnavelspecht, plotselinge beweging, opvlieging, hint, flikkerlicht, film

Français (French)
1.
v. intr. - trembloter, vaciller, papilloter, clignoter
v. tr. - faire clignoter
n. - scintillement, battement (des paupières), (Cin) scintillement, (TV) papillotement

idioms:

• flicker out    vaciller et s'éteindre

2.
n. - pic d'Amérique

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - flimmern, flattern, flackern
n. - Flimmer, Zucken, Flattern

idioms:

• flicker out    verlöschen

2.
n. - ein (nordamer) Goldspecht

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - τρεμοφέγγω, τρεμοπαίζω
n. - τρεμοπαίξιμο, τρεμούλιασμα, αναλαμπή

Italiano (Italian)
brillare debolmente, tremolare, scintillio

Português (Portuguese)
v. - mover-se rapidamente
n. - oscilação (f) (de luz)

Русский (Russian)
мерцание, последняя вспышка, трепетание, мерцать

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. intr. - parpadear, destellar, temblar, aletear, vacilar, flamear, revolotear
v. tr. - hacer que flamee
n. - destello, parpadeo, centelleo, oscilación, llama vacilante

idioms:

• flicker out    acabarse

2.
n. - variedad de pájaro carpintero norteamericano

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - flämta, fladdra
n. - flämtande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 闪烁, 忽隐忽现, 摇曳, 颤动, 使摇曳, 使忽隐忽现, 使闪烁不定, 以闪烁的光表示, 轻快的动作

2. 电影

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. intr. - 閃爍, 忽隱忽現, 搖曳, 顫動
v. tr. - 使搖曳, 使忽隱忽現, 使閃爍不定, 以閃爍的光表示
n. - 閃爍, 忽隱忽現, 搖曳, 輕快的動作

2.
n. - 電影

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. intr. - (등불, 희망 등이) 명멸하다, 나부끼다, 기절하다
v. tr. - 깜박이게 하다, 나부끼게 하다
n. - 깜박임, 어른거림, 살랑거림

2.
n. - 영화관

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 明滅する, そよぐ, 明滅させる, 震えさせる, ちらちらする
n. - そよぎ, ゆらぎ, ハシボソキツツキ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يخفق , يرفرف (الاسم) طائر النقار , اشتعال‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮היבהב, עיפעף, הבליח‬
v. tr. - ‮גרם להבהב‬
n. - ‮זיק (תקווה), הבהוב‬
n. - ‮נקר (ציפור)‬

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