| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Blink.[Websters]
2. To be battered, crumpled or monetized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have whisked, affected or churned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be rayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have stirred, shuffled, thrashed, threshed or riffled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be palpitated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have licked, conquered, outplayed, outvoted or zapped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have coped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have finished or stopped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have wavered, oscillated, heaved, fluctuated or teetered.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb blink.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (blink) | 1. Briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink".[Wordnet]. 2. Force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears".[Wordnet]. 3. Gleam or glow intermittently.[Wordnet]. 4. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.[Websters]. 5. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.[Websters]. 6. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.[Websters]. 7. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.[Websters]. 8. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.[Websters]. 9. To trick; to deceive.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: blinking, blinked, blinks, blinker, blinkers, blinkingly and blinkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being battered or crumpled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BLINKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
Specialty Definition: blink
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Blink vi.,n. To use a navigator or off-line message reader to minimize time spent on-line to a commercial network service (a necessity in many places outside the U.S. where the telecoms monopolies charge per-minute for local calls). This term attained wide use in the UK, but is rare or unknown in the US. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Military | An indication that the master or secondary signals in a loran chain are out of tolerance and not be used. Loran receivers have a blink alarm that warns the user that the indicated positions may not be reliable. Blink conditions warn that the signal power or TD is out-of-tolerance (OOT) and/or that an improper phase code or GRI is being transmitted. Physically the first two pulses of the secondary pulse group are blinked on and off. In turn, the receiver displays this blink code by flashing the display. Blink contributes to the integrity of the Loran-C system. According to some sources, this code is the origin of the common English phrase on the blink. There are actually two types of blink, secondary and master blink. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Blinking is a function of the eye. When an eye becomes dry, closing the eyelid and opening it again rapidly can help to spread moisture across the surface of the eye and ease the discomfort. Blinking also serves the purpose of helping to remove irritants which have landed in the eye. When an animal (usually human) chooses to blink one eye as a signal to another in a social setting, in body language it is known as winking. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: blink
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Attentional blink | Attentional blink (AB) is a phenomenon observed in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP). Attentional blink is when a subject detects one target stimulus in a stream of distracters but then fails to detect a second, different target presented within about 500ms of the first. The precise mechanism behind AB is unknown, but it is believed to be a product of the system by which we select particular stimuli for in-depth processing in order to make optimum use of limited processing resources. (references) | ||
| Blink away | Force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blink beer | Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Blink comparator | A blink comparator was a viewing apparatus used by astronomers to find differences between photographic plates taken of the same area of the sky at different times. It was also sometimes known as a blink microscope. (references) | ||
| Blink Dog | The blink dog is a fictional intelligent canine from role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons that has a limited teleportation ability known as blink. (references) | ||
| Blink of an eye | A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blink of an Eye (Voyager episode) | 'Blink of an Eye' is an episode from the sixth season of Star Trek: Voyager, airing on January 19 2000. (references) | ||
| Blink tag | The Blink tag is a non-standard HTML markup element type which causes text onscreen to blink. An initially popular element type within personal webpages, it has since fallen into disfavor and been deprecated due to its overuse and the difficulty it presents in reading. (references) | ||
| Colonel Blink | Colonel Blink, the short-sighted gink first appeared in DC Thompson's Beezer comic in November 1958. Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to Carmichael. These days he occasionally appears in the reprint Classics from the Comics series. (references) | ||
| Eye blink | A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ice blink | [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Ice Blink | Ice blink is the name given to a white light seen on the horizon, especially on the underside of low clouds, due to reflection from a field of ice immediately beyond. (references) | ||
| Land blink | A peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: blink
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To blink | Mechanical Engineering | Of light or other indicator, to be illuminated and extinguished, or to present black/white or other contrasting color indication, more than 20 times per minute; in aircraft at night in visual flight rules, manually to switch off navigation lights as acknowledgment of message. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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