blinker

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(r)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

US Race horses wearing "blinker hoods".

Noun

blinker (plural blinkers)

1. Something that blinks, as the turn signal of an automobile.
2. Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
3. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment: WikiQuote
4. (rare) Eyelid.
5. (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.

Synonyms

• (turn signal of an automobile): indicator, turn signal
• (eye shield for a horse): blinder
• winkers

Translations

eye shield

• Bulgarian: наочници (bg) (naočnici) pl
• French: œillère (fr) f
• German: Scheuklappe (de) f
• Greek: παρωπίδα (el) (paropída) f
• Italian: paraocchi (it) m
• Norwegian: skylapper (no) pl

• Russian: шоры (ru) (šóry) f pl, наглазник (ru) (nagláznik) m usually plural: наглазники (ru) (naglázniki) m pl
• Serbo-Croatian: žmigavac (sh) m
• Spanish: anteojeras (es) f, gríngolas (es) f (Puerto Rico, Venezuela)
• Swedish: skygglapp (sv) c

eyelid

• Bulgarian: клепач (bg) (klepač) m
• Finnish: silmäluomi (fi)
• Greek: βλέφαρο (el) (vléfaro) n

• Russian: веко (ru) (véko) n
• Serbo-Croatian: naočnjak (sh) m
• Swedish: ögonlock (sv) n

Verb

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

1. To put blinkers on.

   The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before getting into heavily trafficked area.

See also

• blinkers

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Danish

Verb

blinker

1. present of blinke