different between blinker vs clinker

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

Alternative forms

• (brick): klinker

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl??k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kl??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)
• Hyphenation: clink?er

Etymology 1

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Noun

clinker (countable and uncountable, plural clinkers)

1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. [from 17th c.]
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XXXII, p. 581, [1]

     She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house.

2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. [from 17th c.]
3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. [from 18th c.]
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Dew and Alarm Clocks," [2]

     Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.

4. An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
5. Hardened volcanic lava. [from 19th c.]
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:

     Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.

6. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• clinker block

Translations

Verb

clinker (third-person singular simple present clinkers, present participle clinkering, simple past and past participle clinkered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
   • 1923, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 748 (page 125)

     This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.

   • 1981, David W. Schultz, Municipal solid waste, resource recovery: Proceedings of the seventh annual research symposium at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16-18

     The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]

Etymology 2

From clink +? -er.

Noun

clinker (plural clinkers)

1. Someone or something that clinks.
2. (in the plural) Fetters.

Translations

Etymology 3

From clincher

Noun

clinker (uncountable)

1. (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

   clinker planking; a clinker dinghy

Synonyms

• lapstrake

Derived terms

• clinker-built
• clinkerwise

Translations

Anagrams

• crinkle

French

Noun

clinker m (plural clinkers)

1. clinker