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WINK (AM)
WordNet
noun
(1) A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
(2) Closing one eye quickly as a signal
(3) A very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat)
"If I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
verb
(4) Briefly shut the eyes
"The TV announcer never seems to blink"
(5) Signal by winking
"She winked at him"
(6) Force to go away by blinking
"Blink away tears"
(7) Gleam or glow intermittently
"The lights were flashing"
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Etymology
, from . Cognate with Old Saxon , Middle Dutch .
Verb
- To close one's eyes.
- To turn a blind eye.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 51:
- Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 51:
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
- To twinkle.
- To send an indication of agreement by winking.
Noun
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief time; an instant.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.