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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishblynken,blenken, fromOld English*blincan (suggested by causative verbblenċan(“to deceive”); >Englishblench), fromProto-Germanic*blinkaną, a variant of*blīkaną(“to gleam, shine”).

Cognate withDutchblinken(“to glitter, shine”),Germanblinken(“to flash, blink”),Danishblinke(“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”),Swedishblinka(“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related toblank,blick,blike,bleak.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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blink (third-person singular simple presentblinks,present participleblinking,simple past and past participleblinked)

Example of a blinking human eye (slow-motion)
  1. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
    The loser in the staring game is the person whoblinks first.
    1. (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
      Sheblinked her tears away.
    2. Towink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
    3. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
    4. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
    5. (Geordie, obsolete) Toglance.
      • 1850, J. P. Robson, editor,Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or, A choice selection of original songs chiefly in the Newcastle dialect., page485:
        Now exile is over, I'll fly to the north,
        The home of my childhood, the place of my birth;
        O the transports of gladness that over me reign,
        Toblink upon canny Newcastle again!
  2. Toflash on and off at regular intervals.
    Theblinking text on the screen was distracting.
    1. Toflash headlights on a car at.
      An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone whoblinks them.
    2. To send a signal with a lighting device.
      Don't come to the door until Iblink twice.
  3. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
    • 1980, Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, inGlass Houses, Columbia Records:
      All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when youblink.
  4. (in negative constructions) To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse.
    The soldier shot the intruders without so much asblinking.
  5. (transitive) To shut the eyes to (something); toevade,ignore.
    • 1900, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume 3, page199:
      I have no wish toblink or extenuate the serious nature of the difficulty arising from this discrepancy of dates.
    • 1921, Montagu Lomax,The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, p. 63:
      It is no useblinking the unpleasant fact.
    • 1951,John Wyndham,The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published1954, page92:
      "Well, it's no goodblinking facts. We had better clear out soon. If not tomorrow, then the day after."
  6. To turn slightly sour, orblinky, as beer, milk, etc.
  7. (science fiction, video games) Toteleport, mostly for short distances.

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Translations

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to close and reopen both eyes quickly
to flash headlights
to send a signal with a lighting device
to flash on and off at regular intervals
hyperbole: to perform the smallest action
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Noun

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blink (countable anduncountable,pluralblinks)

  1. The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
  2. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
  3. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
    • 2007, Cheryl D. Wise,Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond, page150:
      I can think of no good reason to useblink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.
  4. Aglimpse orglance.
    • 1612–1626,[Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in[Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume(please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London,→OCLC:
      This is the firstblink that ever I had of him.
  5. (UK, dialect)gleam;glimmer;sparkle
  6. (nautical) Thedazzlingwhiteness about thehorizon caused by thereflection oflight from fields of ice at sea;iceblink
  7. (sports, in theplural)Boughs cast wheredeer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
  8. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances

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Translations

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closing both eyes and opening them again
thetime needed to close and reopen one's eyes
aquick view
a view with eyespartly closed

Danish

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Verb

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blink

  1. imperative ofblinke

Dutch

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blink

  1. inflection ofblinken:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

German

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blink

  1. singularimperative ofblinken
  2. (colloquial)first-personsingularpresent ofblinken

Norwegian Bokmål

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NorwegianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediano

Etymology

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From the verbblinke.

Noun

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blink m (definite singularblinken,indefinite pluralblinker,definite pluralblinkene)

  1. atarget,bullseye
    treffe midt i blinken ―hit the bullseye

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blink n

  1. flash,glimpse

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Verb

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blink

  1. imperative ofblinke

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian NynorskWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediann

Etymology

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From the verbblinke.

Noun

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blink m (definite singularblinken,indefinite pluralblinkar,definite pluralblinkane)

  1. atarget,bullseye

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Verb

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blink

  1. imperative ofblinka

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Swedish

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Noun

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blink c

  1. ablink, aflash
    Synonym:blinkning
    i enblink
    in theblink of an eye / in aflash

Declension

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Declension ofblink
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteblinkblinks
definiteblinkenblinkens
pluralindefiniteblinkarblinkars
definiteblinkarnablinkarnas

Noun

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blink n

  1. flashing,blinking
    Synonym:blinkande

Declension

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Declension ofblink
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteblinkblinks
definiteblinketblinkets
pluralindefinite——
definite——

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