(v. i.) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
(v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
(v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
(v. i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
(v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
(v. t.) To trick; to deceive.
(v. i.) A glimpse or glance.
(v. i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
(v. i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
(pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
Example Sentences:
(1) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
(2) The application of single magnetic field pulses over the frontal eye field or over the visual cortex did not elicit eye movements except for small vertical eye movements as part of a magnetically elicited blink.
(3) After 1 year of age the latency of the R2 mechanical blink reflex had a tendency to be shorter than that of the electrical blink reflex.
(4) "He blinks before answering: 'Depends how big the team is.
(5) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
(6) "If you blink in front of Russia, you always end up in trouble," Štefan Füle, the EU enlargement commissioner, told the Carnegie Europe thinktank.
(7) A breathless, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it beginning had three goals inside the first 10 minutes.
(8) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(9) Nevertheless, most characteristics of blink neural control are common to both reflex blinks.
(10) At the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Wills Eye Hospital, 17 children, 18 months to 10 years of age, were seen with a chief complaint of intermittent excessive blinking.
(11) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
(12) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
(13) Blink reflex was elicited by paired electrical stimulation over the supraorbital nerve.
(14) For a brief blink after Soviet collapse, the co-dependency between church and state appeared to have imploded, much like the country itself.
(15) The tear rate in response to a provocative test was diminished in treated rats, presumably due to reduced afferent trigeminal input to the brain stem; blinking rates were more frequent in these animals.
(16) It is suggested that both areas are involved in the R2 blink reflex component.
(17) R2 component of blink reflex was absent bilaterally in 90% patients of group 1 and 2, while unilateral R2 at least was present in group 3.
(18) In infants after 25 weeks of conceptional age we could usually induce the early response (R1) and ipsilateral late response (R2), while the contralateral late response (R2') of the electrical blink reflex became apparent after 33 weeks of conceptional age and the frequency of the appearance of R2' reached more than 60% after 38 weeks of conceptional age.
(19) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(20) Typically, their ongoing ward behavior consisted of very low level activity, involving small peripheral limb movements, wandering or blinking eyes, mouthing or grimacing, and repetitive, reflexive types of patterns labeled "fixed action sequences."
Glow
Definition:
(v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
(v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
(v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
(v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
(v. t.) To make hot; to flush.
(n.) White or red heat; incandscence.
(n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
(n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
(n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) We also remind them that negative feedback is as important as glowing praise.
(3) This procedure has been implemented in a computer program which performs the automatic evaluation of the glow curves and extracts the dose information contained in the PTTL curves.
(4) Draghi's action received a glowing critical reception across Europe .
(5) In bone tissue, so far, positive effects of glow discharge have not been reported.
(6) And these night scenes glow with subtle, vibrant colour.
(7) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(9) Plasma polymerized ethylene (PPE), styrene (PPS), and chlorotrifluoroethylene (PPCTFE) were synthesized by exposing the monomeric gases to an inductively coupled radio frequency "glow-discharge" field.
(10) We hope there is a post-Commonwealth Games glow with the home nations doing so well, but first and foremost it is an entertainment show."
(11) Under more drastic conditions (higher temperatures and flowing air), glow occurred in several instances resulting in an increased production oxidation products as represented by CO2, COS, SO2, HCOOH, and CH3COOH, among others.
(12) Investigations of the functions cited in the title were performed in 23 persons with a normal visual system in conditions of equal illumination, first the glow and the next day or later--the sodium one.
(13) These surface treatments allowed testing of the same basic material which was mill-finished, metallurgically polished, electrochemically oxidized, sintered with a porous surface, and glow-discharged.
(14) Hence the new "tradition" of each party leader producing a mute but glamorous wife for a postcoital glow after a speech.
(15) In fact, the numbers were much worse that predicted, and ensured the would be no post-convention glow for Obama.
(16) An attempt was made to graft the monomer HEMA to the polymer surface by "Glow discharge" technique.
(17) Referring to the spirit generated by the London Olympics, he said: "It would have been much more threatening to us if it had all been about the positive, warm glow of 2012, then the first world war commemorations – 300 years of kinship and family ties."
(18) The mountains are glowing red and it will be a good harvest,” she predicted.
(19) Everything is conforming nicely to my expectation that this will all be a disappointment, but then news comes of glowing press, a five-star review, bigger, louder buzz, and comparisons of the film with Billy Wilder and the screwball comedies of the 40s and 50s.
(20) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.