Army vs Blink - What's the difference?
army | blink |
A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
# Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
# (often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
(figuratively) A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
(figuratively) A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
(figuratively) Any multitude.
To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
To flash headlights on a car at.
To send a signal with a lighting device.
To flash on and off at regular intervals.
(hyperbole) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
* 1980 , Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, Glass Houses , Columbia Records
To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
(Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
* Alexander Pope
To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
* Shakespeare
To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
* Wordsworth
* Sir Walter Scott
To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
(label) To teleport, mostly for short distances
The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
(figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
(computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
* 2007 , Cheryl D. Wise, Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond (page 150)
A glimpse or glance.
* Bishop Hall
(UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
* Wordsworth
(nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
(sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
(label) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
As a proper noun army
is a sports team representing the.As a verb blink is
to close and reopen both eyes quickly.As a noun blink is
the act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.army
English
(wikipedia army)Noun
(armies)- The army was sent in to quell the uprising.
- The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.
- The Fourth Army''' suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second '''Army , also deployed on the Western front.
- The army opposed the legislature's involvement.
- It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.
- Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.
- On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.
Synonyms
* host * *Derived terms
() * army ant * army base * army boots * army group * army surplus * Swiss Army Knife, Swiss Army Penknife * * bonsai armySee also
* Navy * Air Force * MarinesStatistics
*blink
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Verb
- The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
- An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
- Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
- The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
- All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink .
- to blink the question
- (Jamieson)
- One eye was blinking , and one leg was lame.
- Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
- The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink .
- The sun blinked fair on pool and stream.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- (Sir Walter Scott)