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{
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"word": "blinker fluid"
}
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From blink + -er.",
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"tags": [
"plural"
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{
"text": "She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.",
"type": "example"
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"Anything that blinks."
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"blink",
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"The turn signal of an automobile."
],
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"automobile",
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"(informal, Australia, Northern US) The turn signal of an automobile."
],
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"tags": [
"Australia",
"Britain",
"New-Zealand"
],
"word": "directional"
},
{
"word": "directional signal"
},
{
"word": "direction indicator"
},
{
"word": "indicator"
},
{
"word": "trafficator"
},
{
"word": "turn indicator"
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"US"
],
"word": "turn signal"
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"tags": [
"informal"
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}
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"Chiefly in the plural: 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."
],
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"shield",
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[
"attach",
"attach"
],
[
"bridle",
"bridle#Noun"
],
[
"horse",
"horse#Noun"
],
[
"domesticated",
"domesticated#Adjective"
],
[
"prevent",
"prevent"
],
[
"seeing",
"see#Verb"
],
[
"behind",
"behind#Preposition"
],
[
"side",
"side#Noun"
]
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{
"word": "blinder"
},
{
"word": "winker"
}
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1732, Matthew Green, Grotto",
"text": "This floor let not the vulgar tread, / Who worship only what they dread: / Nor bigots who but one way see, / Through blinkers of authority",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Whatever obstructs sight or discernment."
],
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[
"sight",
"sight"
],
[
"discernment",
"discernment"
]
]
},
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"glosses": [
"The eyelid."
],
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"links": [
[
"eyelid",
"eyelid"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) The eyelid."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "klepáč",
"sense": "eyelid",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "клепа́ч"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "eyelid",
"word": "silmäluomi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eyelid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paupière"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "vléfaro",
"sense": "eyelid",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "βλέφαρο"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "klápak",
"sense": "eyelid",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кла́пак"
},
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"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "véko",
"sense": "eyelid",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "ве́ко"
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{
"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eyelid",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "на̀очња̄к"
},
{
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"sense": "eyelid",
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"_dis1": "0 8 4 3 73 2 3 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "eyelid",
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"neuter"
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"word": "ögonlock"
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{
"ref": "2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties, page 419",
"text": "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. […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A black eye."
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"black eye",
"black eye"
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"(slang) A black eye."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
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"name": "Cellular automata",
"orig": "en:Cellular automata",
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"Mathematics",
"Theory of computing",
"Formal sciences",
"Computer science",
"Sciences",
"Computing",
"All topics",
"Technology",
"Fundamental"
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{
"ref": "1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)",
"text": "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).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994 May 13, Louis Howell, “Louis Howell's question of block clearing in life (simple solution)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)",
"text": "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\".",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 January 8, Dave Greene, “Evolutionary factor in Conway's life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation."
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"cellular automata",
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[
"cell",
"cell"
],
[
"horizontal",
"horizontal"
],
[
"vertical",
"vertical"
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[
"generation",
"generation"
]
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"(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation."
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
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{
"text": "I just hit a blinker.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 31, @GreedyAlmighty, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-09",
"text": "When you just hit 2 back to back blinkers off the dab pen and you trying to hold your cough around people",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit."
],
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"links": [
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"dab pen",
"dab pen#Noun"
],
[
"vape",
"vape#Noun"
],
[
"hit",
"hit#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈblɪŋkə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪŋkəɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋkə(ɹ)"
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"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "darrāqa",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "دراقة"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "naóčnici",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "нао́чници"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "aclucalls"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oogklep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "eye shield",
"word": "silmälappu"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "œillère"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Scheuklappe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paropída",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "παρωπίδα"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paraocchi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "skylapper"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schuklaup"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klapka"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antolho"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šóry",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "шо́ры"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nagláznik",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "нагла́зник m usually plural: нагла́зники"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "жми̏гавац"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "eye shield",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "žmȉgavac"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anteojeras"
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"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"Puerto-Rico",
"Venezuela",
"feminine"
],
"word": "gríngolas"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "skygglapp"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "šóry",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "шо́ри"
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"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "waitroûle"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 45 0 8 47 0 0",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "eye shield",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lugnård"
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{
"text": "The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.",
"type": "example"
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"To put blinkers on."
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"(transitive) To put blinkers on."
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"indefinite",
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]
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},
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},
{
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
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},
{
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{
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"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
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"definite",
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],
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],
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}
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