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| English Dictionary: wink |
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| 5 results for wink |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- wink
- n
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or
the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
Synonym(s): blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
- closing one eye quickly as a signal
- a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
Synonym(s): blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation
- v
- signal by winking; "She winked at him"
- gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
Synonym(s): flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle
- briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"
Synonym(s): blink, wink, nictitate, nictate
- force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears"
Synonym(s): wink, blink, blink away
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Wink \Wink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Winked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Winking}.] [OE. winken, AS. wincian; akin to D. wenken, G.
winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan.
vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch[?]n
to waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. weak; cf. AS. wincel a
corner. Cf. {Wench}, {Wince}, v. i.]
1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] [bd]Although I wake or
wink.[b8] --Chaucer.
2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a
quick motion.
He must wink, so loud he would cry. --Chaucer.
And I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
--Shak.
They are not blind, but they wink. --Tillotson.
3. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to
blink.
A baby of some three months old, who winked, and
turned aside its little face from the too vivid
light of day. --Hawthorne.
4. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of
one eye only.
Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.
--Swift.
5. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to
connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
The times of this ignorance God winked at. --Acts
xvii. 30.
And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge
winks, and lets his humors reign. --Herbert.
Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
--Locke.
6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
{Winking monkey} (Zo[94]l.), the white-nosed monkey
({Cersopithecus nictitans}).
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Wink \Wink\, v. t.
To cause (the eyes) to wink.[Colloq.]
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Wink \Wink\, n.
1. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids
quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a
moment.
I have not slept one wink. --Shak.
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink. --Donne.
2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
--Sir. P. Sidney.
The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down,
And tips you, the freeman, a wink. --Swift.
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| From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: |
Wink, TX (city, FIPS 79768)
Location: 31.75523 N, 103.15437 W
Population (1990): 1189 (465 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 79789
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