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Blanking vs Blinking - What's the difference?

blanking | blinking |

As verbs the difference between blanking and blinking

is that blanking is while blinking is .

As nouns the difference between blanking and blinking

is that blanking is an instance of something being blanked out while blinking is the act of something that blinks.

As an adjective blinking is

that or who blinks or blink.

blanking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia blanking) (en noun)
  • An instance of something being blanked out.
  • A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
  • (television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
  • * 2001 , A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering (page 73)
    • Thus during each blanking , a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.

    blinking

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who blinks or blink.
    • a blinking light
  • (UK, euphemism, slang) bloody
    • The blinking telly isn't working again.

    Synonyms

    * (that or who blink or blinks ): winking * (British slang ): blasted, blimming, blooming

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that blinks.
    • the steady blinkings of lights on the console