wink

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
3. A brief time; an instant.
4. The smallest possible amount.
5. A subtle allusion.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To close one's eyes in sleep.
2. (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
3. (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
4. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
6. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.

Conceptes

parpelleig

pestanyejar

segon

2nd

fer l’ullet

ullet

pensament

💭

parpalleig

picar l’ullet

llambregar

llampegar

parpallejar

pestanyeig

pipelleig

llambrar

llampeguejar

tres i no res

fer l'ullet

centellejar

picar l'ullet

instant

Sinònims

blink

twinkle

flash

flicker

nictitate

twinkling

nictate

winking

instant

close

blinking

nictitation

squint

trice

winkle

glimmer

eye blink

blink of an eye

shimmer

heartbeat

💓

nod

scintillate

eye-wink

nictation

blink away

glint

split second

sparkle

❇️

sign

shut one eye

New York minute

inkling

hint

jiffy

bat

🦇

hint given by eyes

beckon

connive

dance

💃

flare

flutter

gleam

glisten

glitter

glow

gutter

instantaneousness

moment

occult

one-eyed

Traduccions

zwinkern

blinzeln

parpadear

guiñar

😉

pestañear

guiño

😉

cligner

sbattere le ciglia

ciller

ammiccare

😉

Zwinkern

knipogen

😉

αναβοσβήνω

strizzare l’occhiolino

einen Augenwink machen

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈwɪŋk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: wynken

Heretat de anglès antic: wincian

Cognat amb Middle Low German: winken

Cognat amb alemany: winken

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: wäänke

Cognat amb neerlandès: wenken

Cognat amb llatí: vacillare

Cognat amb lituà: véngti

Cognat amb albanès: vang

Cognat amb sànscrit: वङ्गति

In summary

From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”), French guigner (“to eye, sneak a look at”).