to blink
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2.0
- verb
- /blɪŋk/
- During the storm, the power light on my router started to blink repeatedly.
- lights blink
- lights blink red
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Watch on YouTubePart of me were neon, a gnarly glow attracting A firefly's haze of blinking tail lights.
- Part of me were neon, a gnarly glow attracting A firefly's haze of blinking tail lights.
- And a couple weeks later, she saw the light blinking on her fax machine and listened to it.
- Why do I so want the light to blink, look alive, move?
- Blink, blink, blink, put in my card just like that.
Examples
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Remember, the red light will blink four times, then I've asked them to turn it off.
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The red light on my answering machine blinked to tell me I had a call.
Fiction book (1991) -
Blink twice if you can hear me!
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This rewind is happening faster than you can blink.
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Blink twice to activate the shutter.
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The Fresno Hotel was six stories high with a blinking electric sign on the roof.
Fiction book (1990) -
The fireflies lifted from the floor, toward the closed window, and blinked yellow light all over the room.
Fiction book (1990) -
Eventually, the dust collector's red light started blinking, so I had to empty the bucket.
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Many cameras today have blinking lights to warn the photographer of overexposure.
Academic text (2010) -
At the top of the pile of boulders, we emerge, dirty and blinking, into full June sunlight.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
137
1.0
To give a sudden short bright light
66
3.6
Move or shine in quick unsteady ways
48
1.5
To shine with small quick flashes of light, often in eyes or stars
33
1.0
To shine with small bright flashes of light
20
4.2
To burn or shine with a sudden bright light
9
2.5
To shine on and off quickly like a small light
5
3.7
To go on and off quickly as a light or screen
4
5.4
To flash on and off quickly
1
8.5
To give off small bright flashes of light
1
4.9
To appear briefly on a screen or device
1
8.8
To shine with small bright flashes
To shine with a small quick flicker of light
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Etymology
The verb blink was also used for lights because old English blincan meant 'to shine' or 'to wink', so a light that goes on and off quickly is said to blink.