Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
blinking-chickweed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a typ of small Indian lettuce (
Montia lamprosperma ) of northern regions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
blink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small Indian lettuce of northern regions
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Examples
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* blinks* It's 6: 00 in the morning, I haven't had any sleep, and I got a letter from someone in Oz ... * blinks again*
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001
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That such a perfect title blinks in and out of view while he's groggy -- before he's even quite come up with the idea for his grand play, or at least stated it out loud -- is a crucial irony that itself represents the whole of writer / director Charlie Kaufman's bleak portrait of living inside your creative mind, never to understand the perfection you seek before death arrives, inevitably.
Jog - The Blog 2009
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In the world of military intelligence, much time is spent trying to distinguish "blinks" -- unpremeditated random actions -- from "winks" -- deliberate moves designed to communicate intent and draw out a response.
Nick Mabey: Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game 2009
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Launched in March, Kepler finished its electronics check-out and turned to its principal mission this week, staring at roughly 100,000 nearby stars for tell-tale "blinks" caused by eclipsing planets.
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Via Locus Online their "blinks" in the left column I found the article Sci-Fi's Brave New World, about science fiction as mythmaking.
Science fiction as myth x00c5;ka 2009
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Via Locus Online their "blinks" in the left column I found the article Sci-Fi's Brave New World, about science fiction as mythmaking.
Archive 2009-02-01 x00c5;ka 2009
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I think Cheever used to point to George Plimpton's pad and tell him, "Okay put down two colons, then the word 'blinks', and now two more colons," back when he'd be interviewed for The Paris Review.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008
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The persecution lasted twenty-eight years, with few "blinks" to take the chill of horror out of the air.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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He kind of blinks at that; but it don't fetch him.
Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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It just "blinks" and it goes very fast but still it is kind of annoying in the long run ...
ASP.NET Forums Visual Web Developer 2010
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