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"text": "1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135,\nWith dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare"
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"ref": "1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1973, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 339",
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"ref": "2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 22, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press",
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"etymology_text": "shim + -er",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shimmers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shimmer (plural shimmers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Crime"
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"crime",
"crime"
]
],
"qualifier": "crime",
"raw_glosses": [
"(crime) 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."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɪm.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-shimmer.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/68/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-shimmer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-shimmer.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/68/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-shimmer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-shimmer.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
}
],
"word": "shimmer"
}
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