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Definition: Blinks |
BlinksNoun1. Small Indian lettuce of northern regions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blinks" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1800. (references) |
Synonyms: BlinksSynonyms: blinking chickweed (n), water chickweed (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: blinked (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Blinks |
| English words defined with "blinks": blepharism, Blinkard. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a little light that blinks! (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) It's funny as hell 'cause it's blinks all the time and I've always liked bright colors (Jidder; writing credit: Christoffer Dahlin; Fredrik Klasson) One blink for yes, two blinks for no. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Tongue Twisters | The blue bluebird blinks. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | Automatisms may include blinks, twitches, mouth movements, or even walking in a circle. (references) | |
People having a complex partial seizure may display strange, repetitious behaviors such as blinks, twitches, mouth movements, or even walking in a circle. (references) | ||
Stuttering is a speech disorder in which the normal flow of speech is disrupted by frequent repetitions or prolongations of speech sounds, syllables or words or by an individual's inability to start a word. The speech disruptions may be accompanied by rapid eye blinks, tremors of the lips and/or jaw or other struggle behaviors of the face or upper body that a person who stutters may use in an attempt to speak. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blinks" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Blinks" is used about 14 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 78.57% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (plural) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blinks" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blinks | Last name | 130 | 65,554 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "blinks": eye-blinks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
blinks | 14 |
thomas blinks | 3 |
blinks magazine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blinks"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 眨眼 (blink). (various references) | |
Danish | vandarve (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
Dutch | montia (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
Finnish | hetekaali (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
French | mouron aquatique (blue water speedwell), montia des fontaines, clignote. (various references) | |
German | blinzelt, blinkt (flashes), Bach-Quellkraut (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
Greek | μοντία η πηγαία (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
Korean | 고장신호 (blink, Blinking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inksblay.(various references) | |
Spanish | hierba del manantial (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
Swedish | källört (dwarf montia). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Montia fontana L., Montia minor Gmel.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "blinks": iceblinks. (additional references) | |
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"Blinks" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belinskii, Belinsky, belinus, Blancks, blinc, Blonsky, blunos, boink, boinks, Bylinski, Ubinsk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blinks" (pronounced bli"ngks) |
| 5 | -l i" ng k s | links, Lynx. |
| 4 | -i" ng k s | brinks, chinks, drinks, finks, inks, jinks, jinx, kinks, minks, pinks, rinks, shrinks, sinks, skinks, sphinx, stinks, thinks, winks. |
| 3 | -ng k s | banks, blanks, bunks, chunks, clunks, cranks, drunks, dunks, flanks, flunks, francs, Franks, funks, Hanks, Hijinks, hunks, hyperlinks, larynx, monks, nasopharynx, phalanx, pharynx, planks, pranks, punks, ranks, shanks, skunks, tanks, thanks, tiddlywinks, trunks, yanks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-k-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: bilks, blink, kilns, links, slink. | |
-2 letters: bilk, bins, bisk, blin, ilks, inks, kiln, kins, libs, link, lins, nibs, nils, silk, sink, skin, snib. | |
-3 letters: bin, bis, ilk, ink, ins, kin, lib, lin, lis, nib, nil, sib, sin, ski. | |
-4 letters: bi, in, is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-k-l-n-s" | |
+2 letters: blinkers, inkblots, lambkins, lambskin, linkboys, niblicks, sinkable. | |
+3 letters: balkiness, balklines, blackfins, blackings, blinkards, bobolinks, bulkiness, iceblinks, kingbolts, lambskins. | |
+4 letters: balkanizes, besprinkle, drinkables, knobbliest, shrinkable, unsinkable. | |
+5 letters: backlashing, backlisting, backslidden, backsliding, balkinesses, besprinkled, besprinkles, blackenings, bookselling, brainsickly, bulkinesses, likableness, linebackers, nonsinkable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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