blinker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈblɪŋkə/    美 /ˈblɪŋkəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything that blinks.
    — She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.
  2. The turn signal of an automobile. Australia,Northern-US,informal
  3. A shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side. in-plural
  4. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
    — This floor let not the vulgar tread, / Who worship only what they dread: / Nor bigots who but one way see, / Through blinkers of authority
  5. The eyelid. rare
  6. A black eye. slang
    — The next morning, Jimmy came home with a fat lip and a black eye. Flory rushed over to tend to him. “Ain't nothin'. Just a blinker... had a fight with a guy. […]
  7. In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
    — The following for example, doesn't work because the spark at the top is actually a blinker, and doesn't die. Without the blinker, this object is known as an OWSS (overweight spaceship).
  8. A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit. slang
    — a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)
动词 v.
  1. To put blinkers on. transitive
    — The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.

词形变化

blinkers plural blinkers present,singular,third-person blinkering participle,present blinkered participle,past blinkered past

词汇关系

衍生词
blinkerdom blinker fluid nanoblinker

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English blink
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English blinker
From blink + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English blink
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English blinker
From blink + -er.
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