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Definition of Twinkling

1. Adjective. Shining intermittently with a sparkling light. "Twinkling stars"

2. Noun. A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat). "If I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

Definition of Twinkling

1. n. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

Definition of Twinkling

1. Adjective. Sparkling intermittently. ¹

2. Noun. A shining with fast intermittent light. ¹

3. Noun. The time it takes to blink the eyes. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of twinkle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Twinkling

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinkling

twinjet twinjets twink twinked twinkie twinkies twinking twinkle twinkle toes twinkled

twinkler twinklers twinkles twinklier twinkliest twinkling (current term) twinkling(a) twinklingly twinklings twinkly

twinkly-eyed twinks twinleaf twinleafs twinless twinlike twinling twinlings twinnable twinned

Literary usage of Twinkling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1831)
"REMARKS twinkling OF THE STARS. BY JOHN BLACKWALL, FLS (Re»d October 5th, 1817.) numerous and contradictory are the hypotheses in which men of science have ..."

2. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"See Many-colored. Many-twinkling. Glance their many-twinkling feet. PP 35. Marble. where the silent marble weeps, ... a mother sleeps: Clerke 1. ..."

3. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1822)
"NOTE B. I shall here insert the satisfactory and ingenious explanation, that Mr. Arago has given of the phenomenon of twinkling, and which has not yet been ..."

4. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1916)
"The twinkling of the Stars. — The atmosphere is not only of variable density from its highest regions to the surface of the earth, but it is always ..."

5. The Bible in Browning: With Particular Reference to The Ring and the Book by Minnie Gresham Machen (1903)
"G. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. — 1 Cor. 15 : 52. " Anathema! Suppression is the word! " — Bk. XI, 1. 1514. G. If any man love not the Lord ..."

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