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Meanings of nictate in English

Portuguese
piscar
Catalan
pestanyejar

Briefly shut the eyes.

        piscar
        Synonyms
        Examples for "wink"
        Examples for "wink"
        1
        Cost me thirty dollars, he said with a wink, doubling the price.
        King Rat
        2
        Muzzle flashes wink in the distance: small arms, smaller range, negligible impact.
        Engineering Infinity
        3
        The brilliant sunlight in the courtyard made him wink faster than ever.
        After Dark
        4
        Sorry.' She gave a quick wink to Amelie before finishing her call.
        Radio NZ
        5
        But he had to content himself with the wink for the moment.
        Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
        1
        Most climbers don't have time to blink before they answer this question.
        Climbing Magazine
        2
        Objective: To study the normal value and clinical applications of blink reflex.
        Pubmed
        3
        For the way governments work, it is a blink of an eye.
        A journey: my political life
        4
        A breathless, blink-and-you'll-miss-it beginning had three goals inside the first 10 minutes.
        The Guardian
        5
        She had to blink her eyes several times to clear her vision.
        Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
        1
        This is also the episode where we learn that Spock has nictitating membranes.
        Wired
        2
        Nictitating opalescent eyes stabbed at Murk through the sending.
        Blood and Bone
        3
        Their eyes have nictitating membranes, like Earth cats, and they have heat-sensitive pits behind their noses.
        What does a martian look like?
        4
        Almond eyes of burning gold nictitated to life.
        Night of Knives
        5
        Our craniote ancestors had a third eye-lid, the nictitating membrane, which was drawn over the eye from its inner angle.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
        Usage of nictate in English
        1
        Alnduul's lids nictated closed, then opened just a sliver.
        Fire With Fire
        2
        Alnduul's lids nictated several times, ultimately remained open: "This would be an extremely reasonable hypothesis."
        Fire With Fire
        3
        Alnduul's eyelids nictated slowly.
        Fire With Fire
        4
        Alnduul's lids nictated slowly.
        Fire With Fire
        5
        If I didn't know to look, I wouldn't see the gills slitting his throat above his starched collar, nictating almost imperceptibly.
        Future Lovecraft
        6
        Helger's eyes wavered; had they been equipped with nictating lids, Caine was sure they would have slowly shut at that moment.
        Fire With Fire
        Translations for nictate