Synonyms of the word

winkle

• n. A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
• n. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus…
• n. (children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
• v. To extract.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

blink

• v. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
• v. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
• v. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
• v. To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
• v. (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
• v. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
• v. (video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
• n. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
• n. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
• n. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
• n. A glimpse or glance.
• n. (Britain, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
• n. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice…
• n. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
• n. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances.

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

periwinkle

• n. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
• n. A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
• adj. Of pale bluish purple colour.
• n. A mollusk of genus Littorina.

radiate

• v. To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
• v. (transitive) To emit rays or waves.
• v. (intransitive) To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
• v. (transitive) To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
• v. (ecology, intransitive) to spread into new habitats, migrate.
• adj. Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
• adj. Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
• adj. (botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
• adj. (biology) Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
• adj. (zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.
• n. (zoology) One of the Radiata.

scintillate

• v. (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.

seafood

• n. (uncountable, countable) Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

seasnail

• n. The snailfish.

shine

• v. (intransitive) To emit light.
• v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
• v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
• v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
• v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
• v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
• v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
• v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
• v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
• n. Brightness from a source of light.
• n. Brightness from reflected light.
• n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
• n. Shoeshine.
• n. Sunshine.
• n. (slang) Moonshine.
• n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
• n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
• n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

twinkle

• v. (of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
• v. (chiefly of eyes) to be bright with delight.
• v. to bat, blink or wink the eyes.
• v. to flit to and fro.
• n. a sparkle or glimmer of light.
• n. a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
• n. a flitting movement.

wink

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. (When transitive,…
• v. (intransitive) To twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To be dim and flicker.
• n. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
• n. A brief time; an instant.
• n. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
• n. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.