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twinkling 音標拼音: [tw'ɪŋkəlɪŋ] [tw'ɪŋklɪŋ] a. 閃爍的,閃亮的,熒熒的
n. 閃爍,瞬間 閃爍的,閃亮的,熒熒的閃爍,瞬間 twinkling adj 1: shining intermittently with a sparkling light; " twinkling stars" n 1: a very short time ( as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); " if I had the chance I' d do it in a flash" [ synonym: { blink of an eye}, { flash}, { heartbeat}, { instant}, { jiffy}, { split second}, { trice}, { twinkling}, { wink}, { New York minute}] Twinkling \ Twin" kling\, n. 1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. [ 1913 Webster] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. -- 1 Cor. xv. 52. [ 1913 Webster]
Twinkle \ Twin" kle\ ( tw[ i^][ ng]" k' l), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Twinkled} ( tw[ i^][ ng]" k' ld); p. pr. & vb. n. { Twinkling} ( tw[ i^][ ng]" kl[ i^] ng).] [ OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps to E. twitch.] 1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. [ 1913 Webster] The owl fell a moping and twinkling. -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. [ 1913 Webster] These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. -- Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster] The western sky twinkled with stars. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " twinkling": blink, blinking, blinky, breath, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, coup, crack, firefly, flash, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, sec, second, shake, shimmer, shimmering, shimmery, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling, split second, stroboscopic light, stroke, tick, tinsel, tinselly, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkly, twitch, two shakes, wink
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