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1.nounAn act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2.nounA brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
3.nounA brief time; an instant.
4.nounThe smallest possible amount.
5.nounA subtle allusion."The film includes a wink to wartime rationing."
6.verbTo close one's eyes in sleep.
7.verbTo close one's eyes.
8.verbUsually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
9.verbTo close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
10.verbTo blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)"He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent."
11.verbTo gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.