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Definition: Blinker |
BlinkerNoun1. A light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages. 2. A blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn. 3. Blind consisting of a leather eye-patch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side. Verb1. Put blinders on a horse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blinker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references) |
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Transportation | A form of visual indicator in which the occurrence of an event(usually passage of gas or operation of an oxygen regulator)is signalled on an instrument dial by the obscuration or revelation of a contrasting surface by the movement of a shutter, often eyelid-like in form. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BlinkerSynonyms: blinder (n), flasher (n), trafficator (n), turn indicator (n), turn signal (n), winker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Screen, cover, shade, blinker; veil, curtain, blind, cloak, cloud. |
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Crosswords: Blinker |
| Non-English Usage: "Blinker" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (indicator, signaler, winker), Swedish (blinker, flasher, indicator). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Blinker (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Signalmen at work with a "blinker" lamp, at the time of her commissioning, at New York City, 25 April 1944. Credit: NAVY. |  | USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) signals with a blinker lamp, during a rainy dusk off Iwo Jima, 16 February 1945. Photographed from USS Texas (BB-35). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Column of five light cruisers leaving Subic Bay en route to bombard Corregidor, 13 February 1945. Photographed from USS Phoenix (CL-46), which is followed by (from left to right): USS Boise (CL-47); USS Denver (CL-58); USS Cleveland (CL-55); and USS Montpelier (CL-57). Note signalman in the foreground, working with a blinker lamp. Credit: NAVY. |  | Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. As the need arises, member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary as temporary reservists, will take over duties of regular Coast Guardsmen, like this signalman using a blinker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blinker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Blinker" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blinker | 65 | blinker led light | 4 |
blinker the star | 26 | blinker download | 3 |
blinker fluid | 12 | blinker fast | 3 |
motorcycle blinker | 10 | blinker heavy | 3 |
7.0 blinker | 10 | blinker circuit | 3 |
blinker vita | 8 | blinker signal turn | 3 |
blinker horse | 8 | blinker free | 2 |
blinker hyper | 5 | blinker light | 2 |
bike blinker sport | 5 | bicycle blinker | 2 |
blinker flush mount | 4 | blinker moped | 2 |
blinker mc | 4 | regi blinker | 2 |
blinker led | 4 | blinker button | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blinker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veshoke (eye-flap), kokëbosh (blockish, clod, empty headed, fop, pigheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed). (various references) | |
Arabic | وضع على عينين الفرس غمامة, ضوء وامض في السيارة, الضوء المتقطع, الضوء الوامض. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шори, глупак (bird brained, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references) | |
Chinese | 火焰信号器. (various references) | |
Czech | blikaè. (various references) | |
Danish | blinklyr, blinker (flasher, flasher relay), skyklap. (various references) | |
Dutch | blinker, oogklep, knipperlicht (colored flashing light, coloured flashing light, flasher, flasher relay, flashing beacon, flashing signal, ghost, occulting light, phantom). (various references) | |
Farsi | چراغ راهنمای اتومبیل , چشمک زن , چشم بنداسب . (various references) | |
Finnish | vilkkuosoitin. (various references) | |
French | oeillère, feu clignotant, clignoteur, clignotant (blinking). (various references) | |
German | scheuklappe. (various references) | |
Greek | βλεφαροειδής ενδείκτης, παρωπίδα (blinder, blinkers), φανός δείκτης πορείας, αναβόσβησμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פנס אתות, נצנץ (flasher, glimmer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | villanófény (flashlight), napellenzõ (awning, sun blind, visor, vizor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penutup mata (blindfold), lampu lalu-lintas. (various references) | |
Italian | lampeggiatore (flash, flashgun, winking light). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ウィジャ板 (ouija board, virus, whiskey, whisky, wings, wink, winker, Wisconsin, wit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウィンカー (winker). (various references) | |
Korean | 점멸등. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkerblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pisca-pisca (flash light, flash light indicator, flasher lamp, flasher unit, winking light direction indicator). (various references) | |
Russian | тупица (lubber-head, thickhead), шоры (blinders, blinkers, winkers), мигалка (flasher, twinkler, winker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trepćuće svetlo (winking lights). (various references) | |
Spanish | luz intermitente (colored flashing light, coloured flashing light, flash light, flash light indicator, flasher lamp, flasher unit, flashing beacon, flashing signal, winking light direction indicator), anteojera (blinder). (various references) | |
Swedish | blinker (flasher, indicator), färdriktningsvisare (indicator, trafficator). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้กระพริบตา, สัญญาณบอกเหตุ. (various references) | |
Turkish | işaret lâmbası (pilot light, winker), göz (cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight), flaş lâmbası (flash bulb, photoflash lamp), atın göz siperi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | надівати шори, моргун (winker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blinker": blinkered, blinkering, blinkers. (additional references) | |
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"Blinker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Binka, blance, Blankney, Bleicker, Blenkarne, Blenkner, brinker, flinker, klinker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "blinker" (pronounced 'Blink"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: berlin, bilker, linker, relink. | |
-2 letters: biker, birle, blink, brine, brink, inker, inkle, liber, liken, liker, liner, reink. | |
-3 letters: bier, bike, bile, bilk, bine, birk, birl, blin, bren, brie, brin, keir, kerb, kern, kibe, kier, kiln, kine, kirn, lien, lier, like, line, link, lire, rein, riel, rile, rink. | |
-4 letters: bel, ben, bin, elk, ern, ilk. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: barnlike, blinkers. | |
+2 letters: blinkered, drinkable, knobblier. | |
+3 letters: besprinkle, blinkering, bucklering, drinkables, linebacker, ribbonlike, shrinkable. | |
+4 letters: besprinkled, besprinkles, cinderblock, lawbreaking, linebackers, rainbowlike, undrinkable. | |
+5 letters: besprinkling, cinderblocks, lawbreakings. | |
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