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blink

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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

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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

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