different between blinker vs blanker

English

Etymology

blink +? -er

Pronunciation

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

Noun

blinker (plural blinkers)

1. (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
3. Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
4. 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

5. (rare) The eyelid.
6. (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. […]

7. (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)

1. (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

1. present of blinke

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

blinker m

1. indefinite plural of blink

Verb

blinker

1. present of blinke

English

Etymology

blank +? -er

Adjective

blanker

1. comparative form of blank: more blank
   • 1936, Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

     And lonely as it is, that loneliness

     Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

     A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

     With no expression, nothing to express.

Noun

blanker (plural blankers)

1. (computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
   • 1987, Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)

     These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

Anagrams

• reblank

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

blanker

1. inflection of blank:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural