WINK
\wˈɪŋk], \wˈɪŋk], \w_ˈɪ_ŋ_k]\
Definitions of WINK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
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a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
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briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
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force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears"
By Princeton University
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gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
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a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
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briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
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force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears"
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a very short time (as the time it takes to blink once); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To twinkle.
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To nod; to sleep; to nap.
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To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
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To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
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To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
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To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
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To cause (the eyes) to wink.
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The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
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A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
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To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; - generally with at.
By Oddity Software
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To twinkle.
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A nap.
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To close and open (the eyelids) quickly.
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To pretend not to see; as, to wink at wrong-doing.
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The time necessary for a wink.
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A twinkle.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To nod; to sleep; to nap.
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To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
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To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
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To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
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To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
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To cause (the eyes) to wink.
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The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
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A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
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To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; - generally with at.
By Noah Webster.
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To close and open the eyelid quickly; hint by the motion of the eyelid; to blink; to ignore or pass over; as, to wink at a wrong; to flicker or twinkle.
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To cause to open and shut the eyelids quickly; to accomplish by opening and shutting the eyelids quickly.
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The act of opening and shutting the eyelid, especially of one eye; a hint thus given; the time required for one such act; an instant; a gleam or sparkle.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To move the eyelids quickly: to give a hint by winking: to seem not to see, connive at (so in B.): to be dim, to flicker.
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Act of winking: a hint given by winking.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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