Plinked vs Blinked - What's the difference?
plinked | blinked |
(plink)
(colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
* 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
* 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
* 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
(blink)
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 verbs the difference between plinked and blinked
is that plinked is past tense of plink while blinked is past tense of blink.plinked
English
Verb
(head)plink
English
Verb
(en verb)- He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
- Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
- The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
blinked
English
Verb
(head)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)
