wink
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To close one's eyes in sleep.
- 2.
(intransitive)To close one's eyes.
- 3.
(intransitive)Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
Đồng nghĩa: connive, shut one's eyes
- 4.
(intransitive)To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- 5.
(intransitive, transitive)To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.
- 6.
(intransitive)To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.
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noun- 1.
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
Đồng nghĩa: 😉, ;), ;-)
- 2.
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- 3.
A brief time; an instant.
- 4.
The smallest possible amount.
It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.
- 5.
A subtle allusion.
The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.
- 6.
(tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
Đồng nghĩa: tiddlywink
- 7.
(British, slang)(chiefly British, slang) Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).
Đồng nghĩa: periwinkle
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From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink), from *winkōn (to close one's eyes), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (to bow, bend, arch, curve). Cognate with winken, winken. Related also to wäänke, wenken, vacillare sway, véngti, vang,, guigner.