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Blinker vs Blanker - What's the difference?

blinker | blanker |

As a noun blinker

is indicator, direction indicator, turn signal.

As a verb blanker is

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blinker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
  • Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
  • Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
    • (Matthew Green)
  • (rare) The eyelid.
  • (cellular automata) In , an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.

    • Synonyms

    *(turn signal of an automobile) directional, directional signal, indicator, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal *(eye shield for a horse) blinder * winkers

    Verb

  • To put blinkers on.
    • The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before getting into heavily trafficked area.

    See also

    * blinkers ----

    blanker

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (blank)
  • * 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
    • And lonely as it is, that loneliness
    Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
    A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
    With no expression, nothing to express.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
  • * 1987 , Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)
    • These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.
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