Rink vs Wink - What's the difference?
rink | wink |
A ring; a circle.
A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.
A surface for roller skating.
A building housing an ice rink.
(curling) A team in a competition.
(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.
As nouns the difference between rink and wink
is that rink is a man, especially a warrior or hero or rink can be a ring; a circle while wink is sign.rink
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rink, renk, from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) rink, rynk, variation of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- We played hockey all winter until the rink melted.
- The Schmirler rink won the Silver Broom.
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.
