S vs Wink - What's the difference?
s | wink |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun wink is
sign.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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.