wink

«wink» in Mova's school dictionary: To close and open one eye quickly, often to show a joke… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• In cartoons potatoes grow on trees and carrots wink from bushes.
• Seren rolls her eyes, then sees him wink.
• Strict and loving can go together: rules and a wink, silence and a big cheer.
• Hold a finger at arm's length and wink one eye, then the other: the finger jumps against the wall.
• That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, that pointeth with his fingers;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wink» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.