Twinkle

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  • intransitive verb. To shine with slight, intermittent gleams, as distant lights or stars; flicker; glimmer. synonym: flash.
  • intransitive verb. To be bright or sparkling, as with merriment or delight.
  • intransitive verb. To blink or wink the eyes.
  • intransitive verb. To move about or to and fro rapidly and gracefully; flit.
  • intransitive verb. To emit (light) in slight, intermittent gleams.
  • noun. A slight, intermittent gleam of light; a sparkling flash; a glimmer.
  • noun. A sparkle of merriment or delight in the eye.
  • noun. A brief interval; a twinkling.
  • noun. A rapid to-and-fro movement.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shut an eye or the eyes with an involuntary twitch or with a quick voluntary and significant action; blink; wink.
  • Of the eyelids, to open and shut with frequent involuntary twitches; hence, of anything that moves rapidly, to dart to and fro.
  • To pass in and out of sight rapidly, as a light; flash at almost insensible intervals; shine with quick, irregular gleams; scintillate; sparkle, as a star.
  • To open and shut rapidly; wink; blink.
  • To emit in quick gleams; flash out.
  • To influence or charm by sparkling.
  • noun. A twitching of the eyelid; a blinking; a wink.
  • noun. A quick, tremulous light; a glimmer; a sparkle; a flash.
  • noun. The time required for a wink; a twinkling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
  • noun. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
  • noun. The time of a wink; a twinkling.
  • intransitive verb. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
  • intransitive verb. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
  • verb. to be bright with delight
  • verb. to bat, blink or wink the eyes
  • verb. to flit to and fro
  • noun. a sparkle or glimmer of light
  • noun. a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
  • noun. a flitting movement
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  • noun. a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
  • verb. gleam or glow intermittently
  • noun. merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
  • cross-reference
    flit  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dinkel  finckle  finkle  kinkle  sprinkle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    banter  chuckle  flash  glance  glint  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bat  blink  blinking  breath  coruscate  
    verb-form