Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of blinking.
- noun A blink or twinkle.
- noun The time it takes to blink once; an instant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who or that which twinkles; especially, a quick twitching or fluttering movement of the eye; a wink.
- noun The phenomenon of scintillation of the fixed stars, consisting of fluctuations of light and of color at the rate of from fifty to a hundred per second. ;
- noun The time required for one twinkle or wink, as of the eye; a flash; hence, a very short time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.
- noun A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling.
- noun The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Sparkling intermittently. - noun A
shining with fastintermittent light. - noun The
time it takes toblink theeyes . - verb Present participle of
twinkle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shining intermittently with a sparkling light
- noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
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Examples
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I was delighted to find a huge globe that showed, in twinkling lights, the route of the Galleon Trade.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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I was delighted to find a huge globe that showed, in twinkling lights, the route of the Galleon Trade.
Archive 2003-03-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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Nevertheless, its twinkling is not useful for the traveler.
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The figure of twinkling is thus evidence of ambience, a paradoxical "ground" for this figure, as the atmosphere is in front of the star.
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But without waiting for any permission, around her waist I put an arm, and had her raised in a twinkling from the ground, and bore her across the pool, she not struggling, but only whispering faintly when I set her down after it was well passed.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900
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But without waiting for any permission, around her waist I put an arm, and had her raised in a twinkling from the ground, and bore her across the pool, she not struggling, but only whispering faintly when I set her down after it was well passed.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900
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Kelly Greene The descent to the idyllic spa at the Grove Park Inn. The Grove Park Inn The Grove Park Inn has an indoor pool built into a grotto with thousands of fiber-optic lights meant to look like stars twinkling from the rocks overhead.
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They have powerful computers that can perform the multiplication in twinkling.
Regulate Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The twinkling was the light falling upon the cabin windows of the ship's stern.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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Generally speaking, TV is a glittery distraction: a shiny coin twinkling at a magpie.
The Guardian World News Charlie Brooker 2010
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