GLIMMER

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glimmer I. verb intranzitiv

1. a licări, a luci, a sclipi; (despre mare) a scânteia.

2. (scoţ.) a clipi (din ochi).

glimmer II. s.

1. licărire, pâlpâire, lumină slabă;

(fam.) to put the lamp on a glimmer a face lampa mică.

2. (fig.) licărire, rază (de speranţă, de inteligenţă).

3. (sl.) foc.

4. plural (sl.) ochi, felinar.

5. (mineral.) mică.

6. (fig.) amintire slabă.

7. (în limbaj poliţienesc) cerşetor.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

On all sides their fires began to glimmer and smoke.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Could it be that some glimmer of vision remained to him? or that his vision was coming back?

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the table had not been cleared yet.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So my mother suspected, at least, as she observed her by the low glimmer of the fire: too much scared by Miss Betsey, too uneasy in herself, and too subdued and bewildered altogether, to observe anything very clearly, or to know what to say.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The cup of life was poisoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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