candleholder vs shimmer

candleholder

noun
  • A device for holding one or more lit candles 

  • A person who holds a candle to assist another person who is working in dim light. 

shimmer

noun
  • A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining. 

  • A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly. 

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