wink
part of speech
verb (wink, winks, winked, winking); noun (a wink, winks)
meaning for a pupil
1) (verb) To close and open one eye quickly, often to show a joke, a secret or friendliness. tree →
2) (verb) Of a light: to flash on and off. tree →
3) (noun) The act of winking. tree →
4) (informal) «Not sleep a wink» means not sleep at all; «forty winks» means a short nap. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job and Psalms, winking with the eye is a sign of scorn or secret malice. In the primary lessons: In stories: a wink tells the reader a character shares a secret or is joking. In everyday talk: «I didn't sleep a wink.» In safety: a stranger's wink or a secret should be told to a trusted adult if it makes you uneasy.
examples
- And why do thine eyes wink? (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. (Writings PSA.35.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Grandpa gave me a wink and slipped me a sweet. tree →
- The lights on the tree winked on and off. tree →
- I didn't sleep a wink before the trip. tree →
- Dad had forty winks on the sofa. tree →
- She winked to show she was only joking. tree →
- The emoji with a wink means «just kidding». tree →
note
Regular verb: winked. Countable noun. Not the same as «blink» (closing both eyes, usually without meaning to).
In the corpora
- That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, that pointeth with his fingers;
- He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; and a prating fool shall fall.
- And why do thine eyes wink?
- In cartoons potatoes grow on trees and carrots wink from bushes.
- Seren rolls her eyes, then sees him wink.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wink» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.