Blink

Definition: Blink

Blink

Noun

1. A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly.

Verb

1. Briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink".

2. Force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears".

3. Gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blink" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Blink

Avoidance

Shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil; retire; (recede); flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to.

Instantaneity

Adverb: instantaneously; Adjective: in no time, in less than no time; presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a moment; n. in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice; in one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure; at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu; at once, all at once; plump, slap; "at one fell swoop"; at the same instant; Noun: immediately; (early); extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment; no sooner said than done; just then; slap-dash; (haste).

Irresolution

Shuffle, palter, blink; trim.

Neglect

Overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at;gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller.

Crosswords: Blink

Afrikaan (bright, brilliant), Norwegian (flash), Swedish (blink, twinkling, wink).

If anyone attacks we can blink em' to death (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

All I do is think and blink. (I Dream of Jeannie; writing credit: James B. Allardice)

For others, years go by as in the blink of an eye. For Jesse Tuck, time didn't exist (Tuck Everlasting; writing credit: Jeffrey Lieber)

In the blink of an eye. Remember that (Commando; writing credit: Joseph Loeb III; Matthew Weisman)

Blink once, you're dead (Aeon Flux; writing credit: Mario Sábato)

In half the time it takes to blink (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Were sweet i didn't blink (Around the World (La la la la la); performing artist: ATC)

Street lights blink on through the car window (FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

If she's with me I'll blink the lights (Part-time lover; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Love can't replace in the blink of an eye (After The Rain Has Fallen; performing artist: Sting)

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. (references; author: unknown)

Bunting's Blink (1915)

Fish Don't Blink (2002)

In the Blink of an Eye (1996)

Aoi Blink (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Blink 182: The Unauthorized Biography in Words and Pictures (reference)

• Blink. (reference)

• I Can Blink Like an Owl (reference)

• In the Blink of an Eye (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blink 182 - The Urethra Chronicles, Vol. II: Harder Faster Faster Harder (reference)

• Blink 182: The Urethra Chronicles (reference)

• Blink (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• SiPix StyleCam Blink Digital Camera (reference)

• Stylecam Blink 640X480 8MB Int Mem Dig Cam - Boxed (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

STAN, short for "standard man," is able to talk, breathe, blink its eyes, and mimic a large number of other human actions. By displaying any number of "casualty symptoms," STAN will provide valuable training for Air Force nurses as par.

Watch Out! : A child can drown in the blink of an eye. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

There was something very slightly odd about him, but it was difficult to say what it was. Perhaps it was that his eyes didn't blink often enough and when you talked to him for any length of time your eyes began involuntarily to water on his behalf

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "blink": be on the blink ♦ blink an eye ♦ blink at ♦ blink at a fault ♦ blink away ♦ Blink beer ♦ blink of an eye ♦ blink one's eyes ♦ blink the facts ♦ eye blink ♦ Ice blink ♦ in a blink ♦ Land blink ♦ on the blink ♦ to blink. Additional references.

Beginning with "blink": blink-and-you'll-miss-him, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, Blink-eyed, blink-of-the-eye.

Ending with "blink": eye-blink, snow-blink.

Containing "blink": low-blink-rate.

Albanian

vezullon (click, coruscate, glance, glint), kapsit sytë, injoroj (dissemble, ignore, pigeonhole, slight), dridhem (dither, dodder, flicker, flinch, give a start, pulsate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, twiddle, twitch, vibrate, wabble, waver, wince, wobble, writhe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظرة سريعة (peep), ‏نظر خلسة, ‏نظر بعينين متطرفتين, ‏غمز (give a wink to, insinuation, leer, ogle, wink, wink at each other), ‏غض الطرف, ‏تعامى عن, ‏تطرف العين (twinkle), ‏أومض (glance, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трептя (oscillate, throb, tingle, tremble, tremor, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wink), гледам с безразличие, мигам (glimmer, nictate, nictitate, wink), пуля се (goggle), премигвам, игнорирам (cold shoulder, cushion, ignore, overlook, set aside). (various references)

Chinese 

霎眼 (in an instant), 瞥 (glance, pearl used in sacrifice), 眨眼 (blinks). (various references)

Czech

blikat (flash, flicker, gutter, twinkle, wink), zlobit (act up, annoy, bother, get up to mischief, irk, irritate, spite), záblesk (flare, flash, gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glint, twinkle), mrknutí (wink), mrkat (flicker, wink). (various references)

Danish

blinke (nictate, nicticate, wink). (various references)

Dutch

pinken, knipperen, knipogen. (various references)

Esperanto

palpebrumi. (various references)

Faeroese

blunka. (various references)

Farsi 

نگاه مختصر (Glance), نادیده گرفته , چشمک زدن (Bat, Sparkle, Wink), چشمک (Twinkle, Wink), تجاهل کردن (Connive, Evade, Ignore), سوسوزدن (Flicker, Gleam, Glimmer, Shimmer). (various references)

Finnish

vilkuttaa (wave, wink), vilkkua (flash, flicker, twinkle), räpyttää silmää. (various references)

French

vaciller, plisser les yeux, lueur, clignotons, clignotez, clignotent, clignotement (blinking), cligner des yeux, cligner, ciller. (various references)

German

blinzeln (squint, wink), zwinkern (twinkle, wink), blinken (flash, flashing, gleam, glint, indicate, shine, signal, to flash). (various references)

Greek 

αναβοσβήνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצמוץ עין (blinking, twinkle, wink, winking), למצמץ (wink), לעפעף (flicker, wink), ל�"ב�"ב (flicker, glimmer, singe). (various references)

Hungarian

pislogás (flutter, twinkle, winking). (various references)

Indonesian

mengedipkan mata, kejapan, geridip. (various references)

Italian

battere gli occhi, sguardo rapido, occhiata (glance, glimpse, look, peek, peep), lampeggiare (flash, lighten, lightning, wink), guizzo di luce, ammiccare (nictate, nictitate, Ogle, wink). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

あっと言う�"に (in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, just like that), あっという�"に (in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, just like that). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あっというまに (in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, just like that). (various references)

Korean 

� 장� 호 (Blinking, blinks). (various references)

Manx

meekey (blinking, flick of eye, flicker, peep, twinkle, wink), meek (twinkle, wink). (various references)

Maya

mudz-ich (to blink). (various references)

Pig Latin

inkblay.(various references)

Portuguese

piscar (twinkle), pestanejar (flicker, nictate, nictitate, twinkle). (various references)

Romanian

licãrire (glance, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glitter, Ray, shimmer, spark, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle), clipire din ochi (nictation, nictitation, twinkle, wink), clipi din ochi (nictitate, twinkle, wink one's eye), închide ochii la. (various references)

Russian 

щуриться, моргать (bat one's eyes, nictitate), мерцать (flicker, glimmer, scintillate, shimmer, shimmers), мигать мигание, мигать (bat one's eyes, flicker, nictate, nictitate, wink, winks). (various references)

Scottish

sg� ileadh (a blink of light). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatreptati, treptati (nictate, nictitate), trepnuti (wince), namignuti (wink), žmigati. (various references)

Shona

-bhwaira (to blink). (various references)

Spanish

parpadeo (blinking, flicker, flickering, nictation, nictitation, quiver, twinkle, wink, winking). (various references)

Swedish

glimta (glance, glint), blinka (flash, nictate, twinkle, wink), blink (twinkling, wink). (various references)

Thai

การกะพริบตา, กะพริบตา. (various references)

Turkish

bakış (dekko, eye, gander, glance, look, regard, slant, view), titreşerek parlamak, parlamak (beam, blaze, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parıltı (glance, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), nazar (evil eye, eye, hex, look, regard, sight, whammy), kırpmak (bat, clip, crop, cut, pare, retrench, shave, shear, wink), kırpıştırmak, gözünü kırpıştırma, göz yummak (blink at, condone, connive, excuse, face up to, have, leave unnoticed, let smth. pass unchallenged, overlook, pass by, permit of, suffer, tolerate, wink, wink at), göz kırpmak (cock one's eye at, nictitate, twinkle, wink, wink at), göz ardı etmek, görmemezlikten gelmek (blink at, close one's eyes to, connive, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overlook, overpass, pass off, pretend not to see, turn a blind eye, wink at), ışıltı (blaze, flash, glint, light, shining, twinkle), ışıldamak (coruscate, gleam, glint, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle). (various references)

Ukrainian

щулитися (cower, peep), відблиск (afterglow, glisten, glow, reflection, reflexion), моргати (flicker, nictate, nictitate, wink), мерехтіння (flicker, glimpse, twinkle, twinkling, winking), миготіти (wink), миготіння, мигати (bat, bat one's eyes, nictate, nictitate, occult), блимати (glimmer, occult, shimmer), блимання (flicker, flickering, glimmer, shimmer). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trong tình trạng rối loạn lộn xộn hấp hối, say bí tỉ (canned, premise, soused), sắp chết say khướt, cái nháy mắt, cái chớp mắt ánh lửa chập chờn, ánh lửa lung linh. (various references)

Welsh

ysmicio, cau'r llygaid, amrantu. (various references)

coierit, coierunt, coniventes. (various references)

bryhtm. (various references)

blinken. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blink": blinkard, blinkards, blinked, blinker, blinkered, blinkering, blinkers, blinking, blinks. (additional references)

Words ending with "blink": iceblink. (additional references)

Words containing "blink": iceblinks, unblinking, unblinkingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blink" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balick, Belinsky, biln, Binka, bleng, bleni, bli, blik, blina, blinb, blinc, Blinco, bline, bling, blinn, blinq, blint, blisk, Blonc, blonk, Blumka, Blyne, boink, Bylinski, Eblin, glink. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bilk, blin, kiln, link.

-2 letters: bin, ilk, ink, kin, lib, lin, nib, nil.

-3 letters: bi, in, li.

+1 letter: blinks.

+2 letters: balking, bilking, blinked, blinker, bulking, inkblot, lambkin, linkboy, niblick, niblike.

+3 letters: balkline, barnlike, baulking, beanlike, blackfin, blacking, blanking, blinkard, blinkers, blinking, blocking, bobolink, buckling, iceblink, inkblots, kibbling, kingbolt, knoblike, lambkins, lambskin, linkable, linkboys, niblicks, sinkable.

+4 letters: antiblack, balkanize, balkiness, balklines, blackfins, blackings, blinkards, blinkered, bobolinks, bulkiness, bumpkinly, drinkable, iceblinks, kingbolts, knobblier, lambskins, multibank, thinkable, thinkably, unlikable.