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blinking - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sporting, the fault in dogs of leaving the game as soon as it is found.
- Winking with half-opened eyelids, as when the eyes cannot bear full light.
- Having twinkling eyes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That or who
blinks or blink. - adjective Bloody (in the coarse slang sense)
- verb Present participle of
blink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- adjective closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly
- adjective informal intensifiers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each time I visit a bookshop I see all those volumes blinking from the shelves like fishermen hunting for the left hemisphere of our brain, the fantastic side of our souls.
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The Wynn Macau looks different from anything around it: The city is aglare in blinking neon, but the only ornamentation on his hotel is a large cursive signature of his last name.
Macau’s Big Gamble 2007
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It could also mean the driver in front of you is going to turn left or that the blinker is still blinking from a previous turn.
Driving in Mexico 2007
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It could also mean the driver in front of you is going to turn left or that the blinker is still blinking from a previous turn.
Driving in Mexico 2007
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The Wynn Macau looks different from anything around it: The city is aglare in blinking neon, but the only ornamentation on his hotel is a large cursive signature of his last name.
Macau’s Big Gamble 2007
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Joe asked, as they flew by a lighthouse blinking from a rocky headland.
Chapter X 1902
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Stopping to check it out, he was startled to find a message written in English blinking at him.
Wraithbait 2009
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At least you don’t look like the collar’s strangling you, as it does to poor Webb, and the blinking is not noticeable.
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You can call this crazy title blinking with something like: blinkTitle'bitches!'
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You can call this crazy title blinking with something like: blinkTitle'bitches!'
Related Words
synonyms (90)
Words with the same meaning
- absolute
- aflicker
- asquint
- astigmatic
- bickering
- blasted
- bleeding
- blink
- blink-eyed
- blinkard
- blinky
- blooming
- complete
- coruscant
- coruscating
- coruscation
- cursed
- cussed
- damnable
- dancing
- downright
- execrable
- farsighted
- firefly
- flashing
- flickering
- flickery
- flicky
- fluttering
- fluttering the eyelids
- fluttery
- glimmer
- glimmering
- glimmerous
- glimmery
- glisten
- glistening
- glister
- glistering
- glitter
- glittering
- glittery
- glowworm
- infernal
- lambent
- longsighted
- mope-eyed
- myopic
- nearsighted
- nictitation
- out-and-out
- outright
- perfect
- playing
- poor-sighted
- presbyopic
- quivering
- quivery
- scintilla
- scintillant
- scintillating
- scintillation
- scintillescent
- shimmer
- shimmering
- shimmery
- shortsighted
- spangle
- spangly
- spark
- sparkle
- sparkling
- squinch-eyed
- squint-eyed
- squinting
- squinty
- strabismal
- strabismic
- stroboscopic
- stroboscopic light
- tinsel
- tinselly
- twinkle
- twinkling
- twinkly
- unmitigated
- wavering
- wavery
- winker
- winking
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