blinker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: blinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blinkers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blinkering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blinkered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blinkered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that blinks.
pos: noun
examples: She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.
gloss: The turn signal of an automobile.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Northern-US
informal
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
pos: noun
examples: This floor let not the vulgar tread, / Who worship only what they dread: / Nor bigots who but one way see, / Through blinkers of authority
gloss: The eyelid.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A black eye.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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. […]
gloss: In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
pos: noun
examples: 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).
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".
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.
gloss: A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)
I just hit a blinker.
When you just hit 2 back to back blinkers off the dab pen and you trying to hold your cough around people
gloss: To put blinkers on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.
Derived words: blinkerdom
blinker fluid
nanoblinker
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: دراقة
roman: darrāqa
lang: Bulgarian
word: нао́чници
roman: naóčnici
lang: Catalan
word: aclucalls
lang: Dutch
word: oogklep
lang: Finnish
word: silmälappu
lang: French
word: œillère
lang: German
word: Scheuklappe
lang: Greek
word: παρωπίδα
roman: paropída
lang: Italian
word: paraocchi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skylapper
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schuklaup
lang: Polish
word: klapka
lang: Portuguese
word: antolho
lang: Portuguese
word: pala
lang: Russian
word: шо́ры
roman: šóry
lang: Russian
word: нагла́зник m usually plural: нагла́зники
roman: nagláznik
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: жми̏гавац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žmȉgavac
lang: Spanish
word: anteojeras
lang: Spanish
word: gríngolas
lang: Swedish
word: skygglapp
lang: Ukrainian
word: шо́ри
roman: šóry
lang: Walloon
word: waitroûle
lang: Walloon
word: waitwere
lang: Walloon
word: lugnård