blinker
Syllables: blink·er/ˈblɪŋkə//ˈblɪŋkəɹ/
blinker noun: anything that blinks.
Noun
blinker (plural blinkers)
- Anything that blinks.
- She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.
- The turn signal of an automobile.
- 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.
- 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 authority1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- The eyelid.
- A black eye.
- 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. […]2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties, page 419
- 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).1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
- 3 live cells together can yield either a blinker or a block, so these will be the most common objects formed "out of the void".1994 May 13, Louis Howell, “Louis Howell's question of block clearing in life (simple solution)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
- A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit.
- a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)
- I just hit a blinker.
Verb
blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)
- To put blinkers on.
- The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.
blinker meaning in Kannada
blinker in Kannada
- ಕಣ್ಗಾಪು, ಕಣ್ಕಾಪು, ಕಣ್ಗಾಹು
Examples of blinker in a sentence
- As Hickerson points out, a glider aimed at a faraway blinker or preblock has only 8 cells, but can be arranged to run as long as you want.2008 January 8, Dave Greene, “Evolutionary factor in Conway's life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- When you just hit 2 back to back blinkers off the dab pen and you trying to hold your cough around people2023 January 31, @GreedyAlmighty, Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2023:
Synonyms of blinker
Forms of blinker
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blinkers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blinkers |
| present participle | blinkering |
| past participle | blinkered |
| past | blinkered |
Origin of blinker
From blink + -er.
Words formed from blinker
Words that rhyme with blinker
Questions about blinker
- What does blinker mean?
- Blinker means anything that blinks.
- What is blinker in Kannada?
- Blinker in Kannada is ಕಣ್ಗಾಪು, ಕಣ್ಕಾಪು, ಕಣ್ಗಾಹು. See Blinker meaning in Kannada.
- How do you use blinker in a sentence?
- As Hickerson points out, a glider aimed at a faraway blinker or preblock has only 8 cells, but can be arranged to run as long as you want.
- What part of speech is blinker?
- Blinker can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce blinker?
- Blinker is pronounced /ˈblɪŋkə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of blinker?
- The plural of blinker is blinkers.
Words near blinker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blinker (page history and authors); blinker (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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