Definition of "blink"

(intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

1. (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.  examples

2. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.  quotations  examples

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   • One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.

     1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […]

3. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.  quotations  examples

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   • Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.

     c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

4. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.  quotations  examples

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   • The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.

     1800, William Wordsworth, The Pet-Lamb

   • The sun blinked fair on pool and stream.

     1803, Walter Scott, Thomas the Rhymer

5. (Tyneside, obsolete) To glance.  quotations

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   • Now exile is over, I'll fly to the north,The home of my childhood, the place of my birth;O the transports of gladness that over me reign,To blink upon canny Newcastle again!

     1850, J. P. Robson, editor, Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or, A choice selection of original songs chiefly in the Newcastle dialect., page 485

To flash on and off at regular intervals.

1. To flash headlights on a car at.  examples

2. To send a signal with a lighting device.  examples

(hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.  quotations  examples

(in negative constructions) To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse.  examples

(transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.  quotations  examples

To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.  examples

(science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.  examples

The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.  examples

(figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.  examples

(computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.  quotations  examples

A glimpse or glance.  quotations  examples

(UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle  quotations  examples

(nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink  examples

(sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.  examples

(video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances  examples