Blink vs Pulse - What's the difference?
blink | pulse |
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
(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
A beat or throb.
* (rfdate) Tennyson
* (rfdate) Burke
(music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
An autosoliton.
To beat, to throb, to flash.
To flow, particularly of blood.
To emit in discrete quantities.
Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.
As verbs the difference between blink and pulse
is that blink is to close and reopen both eyes quickly while pulse is to beat, to throb, to flash.As nouns the difference between blink and pulse
is that blink is the act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again while pulse is a normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.blink
English
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)
pulse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . For spelling, the -e'' (on ''-lse ) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.Noun
(en noun)- the measured pulse of racing oars
- When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke.
See also
* beat * (Physiology) arrhythmia, blood pressure, heartbeat * (Music) meter, tempoVerb
- In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.
- Hot blood pulses through my veins.
