wink

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To close one's eyes in sleep.

   “When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.”

2. fiil To close one's eyes.

   “Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again, And I will wink; so shall the day seem night […]”

3. fiil Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.

   “Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.”

4. fiil To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.

   “The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who ‘’’winked’’’ […]”

5. fiil 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. fiil To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.

   “Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.”

7. isim An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
8. isim A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.

   “I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.”

9. isim A brief time; an instant.
10. isim 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.”

11. isim A subtle allusion.

    “The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.”

12. isim Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
13. isim Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).

    ““I buy my winks,” said one, “at Billingsgate, at 3s. and 4s. the wash. A wash is about a bushel. […]””