Twinkling

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  • noun. The act of blinking.
  • noun. A blink or twinkle.
  • noun. The time it takes to blink once; an instant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Sparkling intermittently.
  • noun. A shining with fast intermittent light.
  • noun. The time it takes to blink the eyes.
  • verb. Present participle of twinkle.
    • 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)
    • Word Usage
    "I was delighted to find a huge globe that showed, in twinkling lights, the route of the Galleon Trade."
    cross-reference
    in the twinging of a bedpost  
    Equivalent
    bright  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bit  minute  mo  moment  second  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    inkling  sprinkling  tinkling  wrinkling  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blink  blinking  blinky  breath  coruscant  
    verb-stem
    twinkle  
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