(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."
Pink
Definition:
(n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
(v. i.) To wink; to blink.
(a.) Half-shut; winking.
(v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
(v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
(v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
(n.) A stab.
(v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
(v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
(v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
(v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
(a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(3) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(5) The animals were exposed for 120 h to continuous pink noise at the intensities 80, 90 and 100 dB SPL.
(6) In this paper, previous literature on the subject is surveyed, and an experimental approach under standardized conditions to allow analysis of possible causes and biological mechanisms of the pink-teeth phenomenon in rats is described.
(7) Pink Monday said it was precisely the reaction it had hoped for.
(8) Positive specimens produce a faint pink deposit which is better visualised by silver enhancement which gives an intense black colour.
(9) The reason fashion magazines have been excited over the M&S coat is because various high-end designers all made pink coats this season.
(10) On other days, she dresses head to toe in bright pink.
(11) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(12) Results obtained with a high pass filtered pink noise at a 106, 109 and 113 dB SPL on 37-40 week foetuses are given to illustrate this dependency.
(13) Approximately 30% of the C. neoformans strains produced large amounts of the pink (purple after 6 days) pigment in the absence of light whereas 70% of the Cryptococcus neoformans strains, as well as C. laurentii, C. albidus, C. diffluens, and C. albicans also produced the pink pigment with light being required for significant early production (2--6 days).
(14) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(15) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(16) On the opposite side there are obviously a few people who are full of a lot of hatred.” Jake Johnstone, who was was wearing the pink triangle of the 1980s Act Up movement, said: “Obviously we had the Paris attacks and everyone was shocked by it, but because Orlando was an attack on the LGBT community it feels very personal and a lot of people feel deeply affected by it.
(17) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(18) They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman’s “pink bus” but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates’ returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, “used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies – at a cost of £35,000”.
(19) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(20) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".