blink

Speech parts

1. blink - Noun

2. blink - Verb

Meaning

To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.

To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.

To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

To trick; to deceive.

Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.

The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nictitate winkle twinkle wink flash blinking winking nictation nictitation nictate eye blink blink away trice sec jiffy
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Antonyms

center eon centre year century period
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Hypernyms

keep reflex radiate restrain hold back keep back

Hyponyms

flicker flick flutter bat palpebration palpebrate

Related terms

wink blink of an eye blinker In the blink of an eye blink-eyed blinkard

Phrases with the word

In the blink of an eye on the blink in a blink be on the blink blink reflex go on the blink

Derivatives

blinked blinking

Examples

The TV announcer never seems to blink Source: Internet

blink away tears Source: Internet

The lights were flashing Source: Internet

A desert locust can consume roughly its own weight in fresh food per day, therefore they are known to literally wipe out vast grasslands within a blink of an eye. Source: Internet

After such repeated presentations of the CS and US, the CS will eventually elicit a blink before the US, a conditioned response or CR. Source: Internet

And they still blink at me now, behind each light a person, a community still holding together, a beacon almost. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

blingmobile blingy blini blink away blink first blink of an eye