BLINKING: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: | | 'blingking
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Matching Terms: | | blinking chickweed, blinking(a)
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- [adj] off-and-on; "the blinking signal light"
- [adj] closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"
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| Synonyms: | | blink, bright, closed, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, shut, wink, winking, winking |
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| See Also: | | inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, palpebration, physiological reaction, reflex, unconditioned reflex | |
Dream Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Dreaming that you are blinking indicates that there is something you fear in seeing. You are refusing to see the obvious. |
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| Related Terms: | | absolute, aflicker, asquint, astigmatic, bickering, blasted, bleeding, blink, blinkard, blink-eyed, blinky, blooming, complete, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cursed, cussed, damnable, dancing, downright, execrable, farsighted, firefly, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttering the eyelids, fluttery, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, infernal, lambent, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, nictitation, out-and-out, outright, perfect, playing, poor-sighted, presbyopic, quivering, quivery, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, shimmer, shimmering, shimmery, shortsighted, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, stroboscopic, stroboscopic light, tinsel, tinselly, twinkle, twinkling, twinkly, unmitigated, wavering, wavery, winker, winking |
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