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Meaning of Blink | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
blɪŋk

Definitions

  1. A fan of the South Korean girl group Blackpink.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Blink.
    alt-of
  3. The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
  4. The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
  5. A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
  6. A glimpse or glance.
  7. gleam; glimmer; sparkle
  8. The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
  9. Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
  10. An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances

Equivalents

Examples

“I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.”
“This is the first blink that ever I had of him.”
“Not a blink of light was there.”
“this man vanished away […]as he had been a blink of the sun”
“The long-awaited solo from BLACKPINK's Jennie came along and was very well received by BLINKs everywhere.”
“BLACKPINK's first concert in Manila was definitely one for the books and BLINKs can only hope the four girls can come back sooner with brand new hit songs!”
“Many Blinks frantically refreshed multiple tabs of the ticket sales site on several devices just to secure a ticket to BlackPink's world tour in a cutthroat battle against thousands of other Blinks.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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