Wink vs Zink - What's the difference?
wink | zink |
(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.
* 1765 , Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, The complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 2
As nouns the difference between wink and zink
is that wink is an act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking while zink is obsolete form of lang=en.As a verb wink
is to close one's eyes.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.
Derived terms
* nudge nudge wink wink * wink murderzink
English
Noun
(-)- It is prepared, according to Dr. Shaw, as follows: take six ounces of copper, melting it in a wind furnace; add to it one ounce of zink : then stirring the whole well together, pour out the metal immediately.