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| wink | |
| 1. verb. ammiccare, fare un cenno | |
| 2. verb. brillare, lampeggiare | |
| 3. sost. occhiolino, ammiccamento | |
| 4. sost. (senso figurato) istante | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| wink | |
| 1. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep. |  |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To close one's eyes. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To turn a blind eye; to connive. Usually with at. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the m | |
| He winked at me. | |
| She winked her eye. | |
| He winked his assent. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker. | |
| 7. subst. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. | |
| 8. subst. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. | |
| 9. subst. A brief time; an instant. | |
| 10. subst. The smallest possible amount. | |
| 11. subst. A subtle allusion. | |
| The film includes a wink to wartime rationing. | |
| 12. subst. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks. | |
| 13. subst. (Chiefly British) Periwinkle. | |
