Nictate

Definition: Nictate

Nictate

Verb

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

Etymology: Nictate \Nic"tate\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression nictare, nictatum, from nicere to beckon.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	A momentary closure of the upper and lower eyelids. (references)
Medicine	2)a momentary closure of the upper and lower eyelids. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Nictate

Synonyms: blink (v), nictitate (v), wink (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: blinked (medicine).

Crosswords: Nictate

Etymologies containing "nictate": Nictitate. (references)

Language		Translations for "nictate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kapsallit sytë (nictitate), hap e mbyll sytë (nictitate). (various references)

Bulgarian		мигам (blink, glimmer, nictitate, wink), бързо отварям и затварям очи. (various references)

Czech		mrknout (nictitate). (various references)

Danish		blinke (blink, nicticate, wink). (various references)

French		cligner (nicticate), ciller (nicticate). (various references)

German		Zwinkern (blink, nicticate, twinkle, wink), Blinzeln (blink, nicticate, squint, wink). (various references)

Greek		βλεφαρισμός (blink, nicticate, wink), ανοιγοκλείσιμο βλεφάρων (blink, nicticate, wink). (various references)

Hungarian		pislog (blink, nictitate, to blink, to twinkle, to wink, to wink one's eye, twinkle), hunyorog (nictitate, to twinkle). (various references)

Italian		battere le palpebre (nictitate), ammiccare (blink, nictitate, Ogle, wink). (various references)

Pig Latin		ictatenay

Portuguese		nicotinismo. (various references)

Russian		мигать (bat one's eyes, blink, flicker, nictitate, wink, winks). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		treptati (blink, nictitate), žmirkati (nictitate, squint). (various references)

Spanish		parpadeo (blink, blinker, blinking, flicker, flickering, nictation, nicticate, nictitation, quiver, twinkle, wink, winking), parpadear (bat one's eyelashes, blink, flicker, nictitate, quiver, twinkle, wink). (various references)

Swedish		blinka (blink, flash, twinkle, wink). (various references)

Thai		กระพริบตา (bat, nictitate). (various references)

Ukranian		кліпати (nictitate), моргати (blink, flicker, nictitate, wink), мигати (bat, bat one's eyes, blink, nictitate, occult). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nictate": nictated, nictates. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "nictate" (pronounced 'Nic"tate'): Ablactate, Angulo-dentate, Angustate, Aptate, Aristate, Bicostate, Bidentate, Bipeltate, Bipunctate, Biscutate, Biseptate, Circumnutate, Circumrotate, Contristate, Cooptate, Crebricostate, Cristate, Curtate, Curvicostate, Curvidentate, Decantate, Decemdentate, Dehonestate, Delectate, Denotate, Detesttate, Devenustate, Ecostate, Eluctate, Farctate, Flexicostate, Guttate, Immutate, Impunctate, lactate, Laticostate, Latidentate, Multicostate, Multidentate, Multiseptate, Myristate, Notate, Oblectate, Occrustate, Octodentate, Optate, Pectate, Portate, Prostate, Quadricostate, Quadridentate, Reluctate, Saccholactate, saltate, Scutate, septate, Squarroso-dentate, Superfetate, tomtate, Tricostate, Triplicostate, Tubulidentate, Unicostate, Uniseptate, Vittate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tetanic.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-t-t"
	-1 letter: acetin, cattie, centai, enatic, intact.
	-2 letters: actin, antic, attic, enact, entia, tacet, tacit, taint, tecta, tenia, tinct, tinea, titan.
	-3 letters: acne, ante, anti, cain, cane, cant, cate, cent, cine, cite, etic, etna, neat, nett, nice, nite, tace, tact, tain, tate, teat, tent, tine, tint.
	-4 letters: ace, act, ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, att, can, cat, eat, eta, ice, nae, net, nit, tae, tan, tat, tea, ten, tet, tic, tie, tin, tit.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, an, at, en, et, in, it, na, ne, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-t-t"
	+1 letter: entastic, excitant, interact, nictated, nictates, pittance, taconite, tenacity, tetanics, tunicate.
	+2 letters: authentic, carnotite, cattiness, certainty, crepitant, emittance, excitants, facetting, injectant, interacts, intestacy, intricate, nictitate, pectinate, pittances, quittance, scantiest, tacitness, taconites, tunicated, tunicates, ventifact.
	+3 letters: actinolite, admittance, ancientest, anecdotist, anesthetic, anthracite, anticipate, antiemetic, antierotic, antipoetic, antiseptic, antithetic, austenitic, backbitten, cantatrice, cantillate, carnotites, catenating, catenation, cathecting, centralist, centrality, certainest, chattering, chattiness, clattering, constative, constipate, continuate, cunctative, detoxicant, detracting, detraction, emittances, eructating, eructation, excitation, extracting, extraction, fianchetti, fianchetto, immittance, inactivate, injectants, intactness, interacted, intercaste, intoxicate, licentiate, nictitated, nictitates, pentatonic, psittacine, quittances, ratcheting, recitation, remittance, retracting, retraction, sanctities, scattering, snatchiest, spectating, tenacities, tetracaine, trajecting, trajection, unathletic, vaticinate, ventifacts.
	+4 letters: acceptation, acetylating, acetylation, acquittance, actinolites, actinometer, actinometry, admittances, affectation, altercating, altercation, anaesthetic, anecdotists, anesthetics, anthracites, anticathode, anticipated, anticipates, anticruelty, antiemetics, antipyretic, antiseptics, cantatrices, cantillated, cantillates, catenations, cattinesses, cementation, centralists, centripetal, certainties, clarinetist, coattending, coattesting, confutative, connotative, constatives, constipated, constipates, containment, contaminate, continental, contractile, contractive, contrariety, contrastive, creationist, crepitating, crepitation, curtailment, decantation, delectation, denticulate, detoxicants, detractions, elicitation, eructations, esthetician, excitations, expectation, extractions, extricating, extrication, fianchettos, fractionate, gesticulant, immittances, inactivated, inactivates, inauthentic, interactant, interacting, interaction, interactive, interatomic, intercalate, intercostal, intercrater, intestacies, intoxicated, intoxicates, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, licentiates, martensitic, mentalistic, metacentric, metafiction, metagenetic, metrication, natriuretic, necessitate, nonathletic, outcheating, outdistance, pacesetting, pantheistic, parenthetic, pectination, pertinacity, pontificate, precipitant, psittacines, ratiocinate, reattaching, reattacking, recantation, recitations, reluctating, reluctation, remittances, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, scatterings, scintillate, semanticist, stenobathic, tacitnesses, telecasting, teratogenic, tetanically, tetracaines, thiocyanate, tonetically, trajections, transecting, transection, tumefaction, typecasting, unaesthetic, unauthentic, uncertainty, vaticinated, vaticinates, wainscotted.
	+5 letters: accentuating, accentuation, acceptations, acetonitrile, acetylations, acquittances, actinometers, actinometric, actinomycete, aesthetician, affectations, affectionate, altercations, anaesthetics, anecdotalist, anelasticity, anthelmintic, anticathodes, anticreative, antidiabetic, antielectron, antientropic, antigenicity, antihysteric, antimagnetic, antiparticle, antipathetic, antipyretics, antithetical, authenticate, authenticity, carburetting, cementations, centralistic, centralities, chastisement, chattinesses, clarinetists, clarinettist, clatteringly, commentating, committeeman, conglutinate, consultative, containments, contaminated, contaminates, contestation, continentals, continuative, contractible, contradicted, counterstain, creationists, crepitations, curtailments, deactivating, deactivation, decantations, decapitating, decapitation, delectations, denticulated, detoxicating, detoxication, disinfectant, educationist, effectuating, effectuation, elicitations, encrustation, enthusiastic, estheticians, exanthematic, excogitating, excogitation, exercitation, expectations, extrications, fantasticate, fantasticoes, felicitating, felicitation, fianchettoed, fractionated, fractionates, inactivities, inarticulate, incapacitate, indoctrinate, inelasticity, inexactitude, inspectorate, intactnesses, intellectual, interactants, interactions, intercalated, intercalates, intercoastal, intercostals, interfaculty, mercantilist, metacentrics, metafictions, metrications, mutagenicity, natriuretics, necessitated, necessitates, negativistic, neutralistic, nonactivated, nonaesthetic, nonarchitect, nonstrategic, obstetrician, outdistanced, outdistances, pancreatitis, pathogenetic, pectinations, petrifaction, placentation, pneumaticity, pontificated, pontificates, postaccident, practitioner, precipitants, privatdocent, putrefaction, ratiocinated, ratiocinates, reactivating, reactivation, recalcitrant, recantations, recontacting, reluctations, reticulating, reticulation, retinotectal, retroactions, scatteration, scatterbrain, scatteringly, scintillated, scintillates, semanticists, stupefaction, technicality, technocratic, tectonically, tetracycline, theoretician, thiocyanates, tradescantia, transections, transfecting, transfection, trichopteran, trochanteric, tumefactions, unattractive, unchastities, uncultivated, undistracted, unsystematic.
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