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Twinkling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of blinking.

n. A blink or twinkle: the twinkling of a starry sky.

n. The time it takes to blink once; an instant: disappeared in the twinkling of an eye.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Sparkling intermittently.

n. A shining with fast intermittent light.

n. The time it takes to blink the eyes.

v. Present participle of twinkle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

n. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling.

n. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of one who or that which twinkles; especially, a quick twitching or fluttering movement of the eye; a wink.

n. The phenomenon of scintillation of the fixed stars, consisting of fluctuations of light and of color at the rate of from fifty to a hundred per second. ;

n. The time required for one twinkle or wink, as of the eye; a flash; hence, a very short time.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. shining intermittently with a sparkling light

n. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

Word Usage

"I was delighted to find a huge globe that showed, in twinkling lights, the route of the Galleon Trade."

Equivalent

bright

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

minute bit mo second moment

Cross Reference

in the twinging of a bedpost

Form

in the twinkling of an eye

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wink twinkle scintillation sparkling moment

Verb Stem

twinkle

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

inkling sprinkling tinkling wrinkling