(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."
Twinkle
Definition:
(v. i.) To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
(v. i.) To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
(n.) A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
(n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
(n.) The time of a wink; a twinkling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doesn’t it ever need a break?” “Maybe it likes it,” he shoots back, a twinkle in his eye.
(2) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.
(3) In the study involving 24 women in the final few months of pregnancy, half were asked to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to their foetuses for five days a week.
(4) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
(5) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
(6) She had moved on from playing loud, blousy, funny girls on television ( Twinkle in Dinnerladies with Victoria Wood , and Veronica in Shameless ) to complex, heavy-duty characters (Myra Hindley in See No Evil ) and sophisticated, career-driven women (barrister Martha Costello in Peter Moffat’s Silk ).
(7) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
(8) We’ll definitely show that on the day.” There was a twinkle in his eye and a slight grin on his face but Bale, make no mistake, was deadly serious.
(9) "I haven't read the newspapers," Simon twinkled during an X Factor press conference in LA on Thursday, which was bizarrely described by one media outlet as "ill-timed".
(10) I should warn you,” she said, twinkling, “I’ve met all my best friends in the front rows of shows.” We exchanged phones and “added” each other on Facebook.
(11) Since the magnitude of the changes in flow distributions was the same after 4 min as it was in several hours, we conclude that much of the "twinkling" is a high frequency phenomenon occurring over seconds to a few minutes.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest As Twinkle in Dinnerladies – it was Victoria Wood who told her she would be typecast if she didn’t lose weight.
(13) It was with the Emilia-Romagna outfit that Berardi first broke through as a twinkle-toed teenager and it is with them that he remains, in spite of a goalscoring record that even the greats would envy.
(14) He's just twinkled his way into the box and then spread panic among the Chelsea defenders with a cross that cannoned off two of them before Cole cleared.
(15) It's been around for less than a year, yet Heidi Thomas's wildly successful period drama feels as if it's been with us forever, with each episode essentially a yuletide special in miniature, laden with air-punching nuns and twinkling tales of placentas past.
(16) They made one video, a 30-second version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star , which was watched about 15,000 times in the first month after its release in August 2011.
(17) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(18) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.
(19) Oak-panelled walls are hung with hunting scenes and pre-independence state crests, while the chandeliers twinkle.
(20) The United team was strong on paper, with Rooney and Van Persie supported by the twinkle-toed Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj.