blink
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /blɪŋk/
blink (blinks, present participle blinking; past and past participle blinked)
- (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
- (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
- She blinked her tears away.
- To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
- 1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott between the Temple-Gates, OCLC 670734254 ↗:
- One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.
- To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene i]:
- Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
- To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
- 1803, Walter Scott, Thomas the Rhymer:
- The sun blinked fair on pool and stream.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
- To flash headlights on a car at.
- An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
- To send a signal with a lighting device.
- Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
- (hyperbole) 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.
- to blink the question
- (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
- To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
- (scifi, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
- (close and open both eyes quickly) nictitate
- French: ciller, cligner des yeux, clignoter
- German: blinzeln
- Italian: sbattere le ciglia, ammiccare
- Portuguese: piscar
- Russian: морга́ть
- Spanish: parpadear, guiñar
- French: faire un appel de phares
- German: lichthupen
- Italian: lampeggiare
- Portuguese: piscar
- Russian: мига́ть
- Spanish: guiñar
- Italian: segnalare
- Russian: мига́ть
- French: clignoter
- German: blinken
- Italian: lampeggiare, intermittenza
- Portuguese: piscar
- Russian: мигать
- Spanish: destellar, parpadear, titilar
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.
- (UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
- Not a blink of light was there.
- (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
- French: coup d’œil
- Italian: battito di ciglia, occhiata, in un batter d'occhio
- Portuguese: olhadela
- Russian: миг
- French: clignement
- German: Augenzwinkern, Zwinkern
- Italian: battito di ciglia
- Portuguese: piscada, piscadela
- Russian: морга́ние
- French: clin d’œil
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