blinker

See also: Blinker

English

US Race horses wearing "blinker hoods".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(r)

Etymology

blink +‎ -er

Noun

blinker (plural blinkers)

1. Anything that blinks, such 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Matthew Green to this entry?)

4. (rare) The 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): directional, directional signal, indicator, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal
• (eye shield for a horse): blinder
• winkers

Translations

eye shield

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: درّاڭة‎ f (dərræga)

• Bulgarian: наочници (bg) pl (naočnici)
• Dutch: oogklep f
• French: œillère (fr) f
• German: Scheuklappe (de) f
• Greek: παρωπίδα (el) f (paropída)
• Italian: paraocchi m

• Norwegian: skylapper pl
• Portuguese: antolho m
• Russian: шо́ры (ru) f pl (šóry), нагла́зник (ru) m (nagláznik) usually plural: нагла́зники (ru) m pl (naglázniki)
• Serbo-Croatian: žmigavac (sh) m
• Spanish: anteojeras f, gríngolas f (Puerto Rico, Venezuela)
• Swedish: skygglapp (sv) c
• Walloon: waitroûle (wa) f, waitwere (wa) f, lugnård m

eyelid

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

• Russian: ве́ко (ru) n (véko)
• 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 riding into an area of heavy traffic.

See also

• blinkers

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Danish

Verb

blinker

1. present tense of blinke