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blink
English
Etymology
From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English *blincan (suggested by causative verb blen?an (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkan?, a variant of *bl?kan? (“to gleam, shine”). Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Verb
blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)
- (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
- To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
- To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, The Pet-Lamb
- The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, The Pet-Lamb
- (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- To flash headlights on a car at.
- To send a signal with a lighting device.
- To flash headlights on a car at.
- (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
- 1980, Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, Glass Houses, Columbia Records
- All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink.
- 1980, Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, Glass Houses, Columbia Records
- (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
- (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
- (science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
Synonyms
- (close and open both eyes quickly): nictitate
Translations
Noun
blink (plural blinks)
- The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
- (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
- (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
- 2007, Cheryl D. Wise, Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond (page 150)
- I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.
- 2007, Cheryl D. Wise, Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond (page 150)
- A glimpse or glance.
- This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
- (Britain, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle
- Not a blink of light was there.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle
- (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
- (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
- (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
Related terms
Translations
Danish
Verb
blink
- imperative of blinke
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??k
Verb
blink
- first-person singular present indicative of blinken
- imperative of blinken
German
Verb
blink
- singular imperative of blinken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of blinken
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb blinke
Pronunciation
Noun
blink m (definite singular blinken, indefinite plural blinker, definite plural blinkene)
- a target, bullseye
Synonyms
- skyteskive
Derived terms
- midt i blinken
Noun
blink n
- lightning
Derived terms
- blinklys
See also
- lynglimt
Verb
blink
- imperative of blinke
References
- “blink” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb blinke
Noun
blink m (definite singular blinken, indefinite plural blinkar, definite plural blinkane)
- a target, bullseye
Synonyms
- skyteskive
Derived terms
- augneblink
Verb
blink
- imperative of blinka
References
- “blink” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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blinker
English
Etymology
blink +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl??k?(?)/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
blinker (plural blinkers)
- (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
- Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
- Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
Who worship only what they dread:
Nor bigots who but one way see,
Through blinkers of authority
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- (rare) The eyelid.
- (slang) A black eye.
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- The next morning, Jimmy came home with a fat lip and a black eye. Flory rushed over to tend to him. “Ain't nothin'. Just a blinker... had a fight with a guy. […]
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
Synonyms
- (turn signal of an automobile): directional, directional signal, indicator, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal
- (eye shield for a horse): blinder, winker
Translations
Verb
blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)
- (transitive) To put blinkers on.
- The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.
See also
- blinkers
Danish
Verb
blinker
- present of blinke
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
blinker m
- indefinite plural of blink
Verb
blinker
- present of blinke
blinker From the web:
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- what blinker fluid
- what blinker fluid to use
- what blinkers to use when parallel parking
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