ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Eyewink

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Eyewink is a noun meaning (poetic) An instant, a short moment.

Meaning

(poetic) An instant, a short moment.

More Meanings

  1. The winking of an eye.

Example Sentences

Dogs were conditioned to give an eyewink to light by pairing a light and a puff of air to the cornea.
It vanished out of sight with exceeding speed; Rapid it was; A burst of brilliance which lasted less than an eyewink.
Simply by observing the antecedents to the movement, we can tell, for example, whether an eyewink has occurred voluntarily […]
As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […]

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