blink

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
3. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
4. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
5. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
6. (Geordie, intransitive, obsolete) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
7. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
8. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
9. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
10. (excessive) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
11. To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse.
12. (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
13. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
14. To teleport, mostly for short distances.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
3. (countable, uncountable) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
4. (countable, uncountable) A glimpse or glance.
5. (UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
6. (countable, uncountable) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
7. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
8. (countable, uncountable) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances

Conceptos

parpadear

guiñar

😉

pestañear

cerrar los ojos

pestañar

guiñar el ojo

parpadear con un ojo

destellar

❇️

titilar

pestañeo

guiñar con el ojo

parpadear involuntario

hacer arrugar el ojo

hacer señas con los ojos

brillar intermitentemente

ahogar

papardear

bizquear

instante

momento

bizcar

destello

guiñada

😉

guiño

😉

parpadeo

Sinónimos

wink

😉

twinkle

flicker

flash

nictate

nictitate

blinking

eye blink

blink away

squint

winkle

instant

flap

nictitation

press together

close

winking

nictation

beat

moment

twinkling

shimmer

flutter

close one’s eyes

wrinkles

close eyes

reflected light

close the eyes

palpebrate

blink the eye

unknow

bat

🦇

shrinkage depression

blench

clap

👏

condone

connive

dance

💃

flare

gleam

glimmer

glint

glisten

gutter

ignore

lighten

occult

peep

reflect

reflex

Traducciones

blinzeln

cligner

zwinkern

ciller

clignoter

cligner des yeux

😉

knipperen

sbattere le ciglia

piscar

pinken

knipogen

😉

einen Augenwink machen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/blɪŋk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: blynken

Heredado de inglés antiguo: blincan

Cognado con inglés: blench

Cognado con neerlandés: blinken

Cognado con alemán: blinken

Cognado con danés: blinke

Cognado con sueco: blinka

In summary

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English *blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.