Linkt vs Winkt - What's the difference?
linkt | winkt |
(obsolete) (link)
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(obsolete) (wink)
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(obsolete) To close one's eyes.
* Shakespeare
* Tillotson
(archaic) To turn a blind eye.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
* Herbert
* John Locke
(intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
To twinkle.
To be dim and flicker.
To send an indication of agreement by winking.
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
A brief time; an instant.
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
* 1919 ,
A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
In obsolete terms the difference between linkt and winkt
is that linkt is past tense of link while winkt is past tense of wink.linkt
English
Verb
(head)winkt
English
Verb
(head)wink
English
Verb
(en verb)- I will wink , so shall the day seem night.
- They are not blind, but they wink .
- Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
- And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.
- Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
- He winked at me.
- She winked her eye.
- The light winks .
Noun
(en noun)- I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.