different between blicken vs blicket

English

Etymology

From Middle English bliknen (“to glitter, grow pale”), from Old Norse blíkna (“to become pale”). Influenced by Middle English bliken (“to shine”), from Old English bl?can (“to shine, glitter, gleam”). More at blike, blick.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

blicken (third-person singular simple present blickens, present participle blickening, simple past and past participle blickened)

1. (intransitive) To become pale.
2. (intransitive) To shine.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German blicken, from Old High German blicchen, from Proto-West Germanic *blik, from Proto-Germanic *blik? (“look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?k??/, /?bl?k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Verb

blicken (weak, third-person singular present blickt, past tense blickte, past participle geblickt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to look (usually in a certain direction toward something)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• schauen

Derived terms

Further reading

• “blicken” in Duden online
• “blicken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “blicken” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

blicken

1. definite singular of blick

English

Etymology

Introduced by Nancy Soja in her 1987 dissertation "Ontological Constraints on 2-Year-Olds' Induction of Word Meanings" from MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

The word was used after Soja by a variety of cognitive scientists, and has gained usage since 2000 in publications by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley.

Noun

blicket (plural blickets)

1. (philosophy) A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music).
   • 2012, Issues in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Research and Practice (page 1627)

     Later they were presented with the picture of a blicket along with the real object it depicted and asked to indicate the blicket. Many of the 24-, 18-, and even 15-month-olds indicated the real object as an instance of a blicket […]

German

Pronunciation

Verb

blicket

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of blicken