blinker

blink +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɪŋ.kɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkɚ

blinker (plural blinkers)

1. (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.

   Synonyms: (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) indicator, (chiefly US) turn signal, directional, directional signal, direction indicator, trafficator, turn indicator

2. Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.

   Synonyms: blinder, winker

3. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
   • 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto:

     This floor let not the vulgar tread,
     Who worship only what they dread:
     Nor bigots who but one way see,
     Through blinkers of authority

4. (rare) The eyelid.
5. (slang) A black eye.
   • 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties, page 419:

     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. […]

6. (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
   • 1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎ (Usenet):

     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).

   • 1994 May 13, Louis Howell, “Louis Howell's question of block clearing in life (simple solution)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎ (Usenet):

     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".

   • 2008 January 8, Dave Greene, “Evolutionary factor in Conway's life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎ (Usenet):

     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.

• blinker fluid

blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)

1. (transitive) To put blinkers on.

   The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.

• blinkers

• “blinker”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “blinker”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “blinker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “blinker” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

blinker

1. present of blinke

blinker m

1. indefinite plural of blink

blinker

1. present of blinke

blinker c

1. (automotive) (US) a turn signal, (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) an indicator (that blinks)

   Synonym: körriktningsvisare

2. a blinker (device that blinks, especially an alerting device for deaf and hearing impaired)

• blinker in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• blinker in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)