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Blin vs Blit - What's the difference?

blin | blit |

As a proper noun blin

is an ethnic group from eritrea.

As a verb blit is

to puke, to barf.

blin

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) blinnen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • (obsolete) To cease from.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
    • nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
  • * 1880 , Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall :
    • A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin' ; it may rain all day, and never '''blin''' ; the train ran 100 miles, and never ' blinned .
  • * 1908 , John Masefield, A sailor's garland :
    • Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken

    Noun

  • (obsolete) cessation; end

    • Etymology 2

    (wikipedia) From (etyl) .
  • A blintz.

    • Anagrams

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    blit

    English

    (Bitblt)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.

    • Verb

  • (computing) To transfer by a blit operation.

    • Derived terms

    * blittable * blitter