blink: significado y definiciones

To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly.

To look through half-closed eyes, as in a bright glare; squint.

To shine with intermittent gleams; flash on and off.

To be startled or dismayed.

To waver or back down, as in a contest of wills: "This was the first genuine, direct confrontation between this administration and the Soviets. It was the U.S.A. that blinked” ( Zbigniew Brzezinski).

To look with feigned ignorance: a mayor who blinks at the corruption in city government.

To cause to blink.

To hold back or remove from the eyes by blinking: blinked back the tears.

To refuse to recognize or face: blink ugly facts.

To transmit (a message) with a flashing light.

The act or an instance of rapidly closing and opening the eyes or an eye.

An instant: I'll be back in a blink.

Scots A quick look or glimpse; a glance.

A flash of light; a twinkle.

See iceblink.

on the blink Out of working order.