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Definition of Blink
Blink

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

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

To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.

To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

To trick; to deceive.

A glimpse or glance.

Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.

The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.

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Blink Quotations

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen

I don't ever blink, honestly.
Ridley Scott

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
Robert B. Parker

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
Liam Neeson

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
Thurston Moore

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
Andy Hertzfeld

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
Roger Moore

I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.
Frankie Avalon

We need to be confident. We need not to blink.
Sebastian Coe

Blink Translations

blink in Dutch is knipogen, knipperen, pinken
blink in French is clignotent, clignotez, clignotons
blink in German is blinken, blinken, blinzeln, zwinkern
blink in Portuguese is piscamento
blink in Swedish is blinka, blink, blinka, glimta


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