What does GLIMMER mean?
Definitions for GLIMMER
ˈglɪm ərglim·mer
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word GLIMMER.
Princeton's WordNet
gleam, gleaming, glimmernoun
a flash of light (especially reflected light)
inkling, intimation, glimmering, glimmerverb
a slight suggestion or vague understanding
"he had no inkling what was about to happen"
gleam, glimmerverb
shine brightly, like a star or a light
Wiktionary
glimmernoun
A faint light; a dim glow.
The glimmer of the fireflies was pleasant to watch.
glimmernoun
A flash of light.
glimmernoun
A faint or remote possibility.
A glimmer of hope.
glimmernoun
mica
glimmerverb
To shine with a faint light.
The fireflies glimmered in the dark.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Glimmernoun
Etymology: from the verb.
The lesser masses that are lodged in sparry and stony bodies, dispersedly, from their shining and glimmering, were an inducement to the writers of fossils to give those bodies the name of mica and glimmer. John Woodward, on Fossils.
Stones which are composed of plates, that are generally plain and parallel, and that are flexible and elastick: talc, catsilver, or glimmer, of which there are three sorts, the yellow or golden, the white or silvery, and the black. John Woodward.
To GLIMMERverb
Etymology: glimmer, Danish, to shine; glimmen, Dutch, to glow.
The West yet glimmers with some streaks of day. William Shakespeare.
The truth appears so naked on my side,
That any purblind eye may find it out.
—— And on my side it is so well apparel’d,
So clear, so shining, and so evident,
That it will glimmer through a blind man’s eye. William Shakespeare.Oft in glimmering bowers and glades
He met her. John Milton.See’st thou yon’ dreary plain, forlorn and wild,
The seat of desolation, void of light,
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
Casts pale and dreadful? John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i.The sacred influence
Of light appears, and from the walls of heav’n
Shoots far into the bosom of dim night
A glimmering dawn. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.Through these sad shades this chaos in my soul,
Some seeds of light at length began to roll;
The rising motion of an infant ray
Shot glimm’ring through the cloud, and promis’d day. Matthew Prior.Oft by the winds, extinct the signal lies;
Or smother’d in the glimm’ring socket dies. John Gay, Trivia.When rosy morning glimmer’d o’er the dales,
He drove to pasture all the lusty males. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.On the way the baggage post-boy, who had been at court, got a glimmering who they were. Henry Wotton.
The Pagan priesthood was always in the druids; and there was a perceivable glimmering of the Jewish rites in it, though much corrupted. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
glimmer
A glimmer refers to a faint or unsteady light, a shimmering appearance or a slight hint or indication of something. It can also refer to the process of gleaming faintly or the experience of understanding something partially or vaguely.
Webster Dictionary
Glimmerverb
to give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp
Glimmernoun
a faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam
Glimmernoun
mica. See Mica
Wikidata
GLIMMER
In bioinformatics GLIMMER was the first system for finding genes that used the interpolated Markov model formalism. It is effective at finding genes in bacteria, archaea, and viruses, typically finding 98–99% of all protein-coding genes. The GLIMMER software is open source and can be found at the links below. It is maintained by Steven Salzberg, Art Delcher, and their colleagues at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Because of its high accuracy, Glimmer is the system of choice for genome annotation efforts on a wide range of bacteria, archaeal, and viral species. In a large-scale reannotation effort at the DNA Data Bank of Japan. Kosuge et al. examined the gene finding methods used for 183 genomes. They reported that of these projects, Glimmer was the gene finder for 49%, followed by GeneMark with 12%, with other algorithms used in 3% or fewer of the projects. Glimmer was used by the DNA Databank of Japan to re-annotate all bacterial genomes in the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases. It is also being used by this group to annotate viruses. Glimmer is part of the bacterial annotation pipeline at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which also maintains a web server for Glimmer, as do sites in Germany, Canada, and elsewhere.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Glimmer
glim′ėr, v.i. to burn or appear faintly.—n. a faint light: feeble rays of light: (min.) mica.—ns. Glimm′er-gowk (Tenn.), an owl; Glimm′ering, a glimmer: an inkling.—adv. Glimm′eringly. [M. E. glimeren; most prob. directly Scand.; Dan. glimre, to glimmer, Sw. prov. glim, a glance.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of GLIMMER in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of GLIMMER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of GLIMMER in a Sentence
So we said no, leave him where he is at, but our family physician said,' If they give you a glimmer of hope, you take it. If he dies in transport, that's God's calling,' so we decided to let him be transported.
Today we have a glimmer of hope, a slightest hope.
Investors have a glimmer of hope from the fact that in Alexis Tsipras' speech he still refers to a deal being struck. And with the removal of Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister, there is clearly an intent to improve relations with the Troika creditor group, however, in the face of the Greek tragedy and China market turbulence, investors still have plenty to worry about.
The U.S.-China trade war has caused energy demand growth to take a big hit. Any glimmer of hope revives the prospects for a more positive demand landscape.
The level of frustration on Manus Island is as high as it has ever been, the court action, while a glimmer of hope, is frustrating them as there has been no action despite detention being found to be unlawful.
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- وميArabic
- glimmernGerman
- luz tenueSpanish
- valonpilkahdus, väre, pilke, tuikkia, pilkahdus, tuike, kajastaa, kipinäFinnish
- lueur, [[émettre]] [[une]] [[lueur]]French
- առկայծելArmenian
- barlumeItalian
- נִצנוּץHebrew
- تروسکهKurdish
- hīnātoreMāori
- glimmenDutch
- glimte, skimmer, anelse, blinke, skimre, glimtNorwegian
- мерцать, мерцаниеRussian
- parıltıTurkish
- ٹمٹماناUrdu
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