Blink

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly.
  • verb-intransitive. To look through half-closed eyes, as in a bright glare; squint.
  • verb-intransitive. To shine with intermittent gleams; flash on and off.
  • verb-intransitive. To be startled or dismayed.
  • verb-intransitive. To waver or back down, as in a contest of wills: "This was the first genuine, direct confrontation between this administration and the Soviets. It was the U.S.A. that blinked” ( Zbigniew Brzezinski).
  • verb-intransitive. To look with feigned ignorance: a mayor who blinks at the corruption in city government.
  • v. To cause to blink.
  • v. To hold back or remove from the eyes by blinking: blinked back the tears.
  • v. To refuse to recognize or face: blink ugly facts.
  • v. To transmit (a message) with a flashing light.
  • n. The act or an instance of rapidly closing and opening the eyes or an eye.
  • n. An instant: I'll be back in a blink.
  • n. Scots A quick look or glimpse; a glance.
  • n. A flash of light; a twinkle.
  • n. See iceblink.
  • idiom. on the blink Out of working order.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
  • v. To flash headlights on a car.
  • v. To send a signal with a lighting device.
  • v. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
  • v. To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
  • n. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
  • n. The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
  • n. A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
  • n. A glimpse or glance.
  • n. gleam; glimmer; sparkle
  • n. The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
  • n. Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
  • verb-intransitive. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
  • verb-intransitive. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
  • verb-intransitive. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
  • v. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk.
  • v. To trick; to deceive.
  • n. A glimpse or glance.
  • n. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
  • n. The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
  • n. Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To wink rapidly and repeatedly; nictitate.
  • To see with the eyes half shut or with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes; hence, to get a glimpse; peep.
  • Figuratively, to look askance or indifferently.
  • To intermit light; glimmer: as “a blinking lamp,”
  • To gleam transiently but cheerfully; smile; look kindly.
  • 6. To become a little stale or sour: said of milk or beer.
  • To deceive; elude; shun.
  • To see or catch sight of with half-shut eyes; dimly see; wink at.
  • Figuratively, to shut one's eyes to; avoid or purposely evade; shirk: as, to blink a question.
  • To balk at; pass by; shirk: as, a dog that never blinked a bird.
  • To blindfold; hoodwink.
  • n. A glance of the eye; a glimpse.
  • n. A gleam; a glimmer; specifically, the gleam or glimmer reflected from ice in the polar regions: hence the term ice-blink (which see).
  • n. A very short time; a twinkling: as, bide a blink.
  • n. A trick; a scheme.
  • n. plural Boughs thrown to turn aside deer from their course; also, feathers, etc., on a thread to scare birds.
  • n. A fishermen's name for the mackerel when about a year old. See spike and tinker.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. gleam or glow intermittently
  • v. briefly shut the eyes
  • n. a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
  • v. force to go away by blinking
  • Verb Form
    blinked    blinking    blinks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conquer    subdue    curb    inhibit    stamp down    suppress   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wink    twinkle    flicker    shirk    trick    deceive    gleam    glimmer    sparkle    shine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chink    Fink    Inc    Inc.    bink    brink    chink    cinque    clink    dink   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bright    dim    wide-eyed    motionless    luminous    daze    unblinking    awake    sparkle    faint