different between scintillate vs blink
scintillate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scintill?tus, past participle of scintill?re (“to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash”), from scintilla (“a spark”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?nt?le?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nt?le?t/
- Hyphenation: scin?til?late
Verb
scintillate (third-person singular simple present scintillates, present participle scintillating, simple past and past participle scintillated)
- (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
- (astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
- (nuclear physics) Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
- (astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
- (transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, [1860], OCLC 863553483, page 201:
- As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, [1860], OCLC 863553483, page 201:
Derived terms
- scintillating (adjective)
- scintillation
- scintillator
Related terms
- scintilla
- stencil
- tinsel
Translations
Further reading
- scintillate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scintillate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- scintillate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Verb
scintillate
- second-person plural present and imperative of scintillare
Latin
Verb
scintill?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of scintill?
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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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