glimmer

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FRANKEN: The court action now raises the desperate feelings of the family to a glimmer of home, Carol, just a glimmer -- Carol.

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  1. noun A dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light.
  2. noun A faint manifestation or indication; a trace: a glimmer of understanding.
  3. intransitive verb To emit a dim or intermittent light. See Synonyms at flash.
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  • A door opened, allowing a shaft of light to enter the room, then a small figure -- a child? —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • The Kielmark caught Jaric's shoulder and turned him, as'tonished to discover the blood streaked across the pale skin of his neck. —  Stormwarden
  • It was no more than a glimmer, a faint flash as the meteor whizzed through the planetoid's shallow atmosphere. —  The Grand Wheel
  • FRANKEN: The court action now raises the desperate feelings of the family to a glimmer of home, Carol, just a glimmer -- Carol. —  CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2005
  • Dare I say it, there's a glimmer are of light at end of the economic tunnel. —  CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2009
 

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gleam ·  glow ·  shimmer ·  spark ·  blur ·  sheen ·  glitter ·  streak ·  flare ·  glimpse ·  radiance ·  tinge
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English glimeren, to glitter, glimmer; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English glimeren, glemeren = Low German glimmern = Middle High German G. glimmern = Danish glimre = Swedish glimra, glimmer; freq. of glim, v.
  2. = Germanglimmer, a glimmer, mica, = Swedish glimmer, mica, dial. glimmer, = Danish glimmer, glitter, mica; from the verb.
 

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