Meaning

Anything that blinks..

Definitions by Sense

1. Anything that blinks.
2. (informal, Australia, Northern US) The turn signal of an automobile.
3. (chiefly in the plural) A shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side.
4. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
5. (rare) The eyelid.
6. (slang) A black eye.
7. (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.
8. (slang) A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit.

Example Sentences

She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.

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

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. […]

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).

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".

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.

a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)

I just hit a blinker.

Word Forms

• blinkers
• blinkering
• blinkered

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When Should You Use Blinker?

Use blinker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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