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Meanings of nictitate in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wink"
Examples for "wink"
1
Cost me thirty dollars, he said with a wink, doubling the price.
2
Muzzle flashes wink in the distance: small arms, smaller range, negligible impact.
3
The brilliant sunlight in the courtyard made him wink faster than ever.
4
Sorry.' She gave a quick wink to Amelie before finishing her call.
5
But he had to content himself with the wink for the moment.
1
Most climbers don't have time to blink before they answer this question.
2
Objective: To study the normal value and clinical applications of blink reflex.
3
For the way governments work, it is a blink of an eye.
4
A breathless, blink-and-you'll-miss-it beginning had three goals inside the first 10 minutes.
5
She had to blink her eyes several times to clear her vision.
1
Alnduul's lids nictated closed, then opened just a sliver.
2
Alnduul's lids nictated several times, ultimately remained open: "This would be an extremely reasonable hypothesis."
3
Alnduul's eyelids nictated slowly.
4
Alnduul's lids nictated slowly.
5
If I didn't know to look, I wouldn't see the gills slitting his throat above his starched collar, nictating almost imperceptibly.
Usage of nictitate in English
1
This is also the episode where we learn that Spock has nictitating membranes.
2
Nictitating opalescent eyes stabbed at Murk through the sending.
3
Their eyes have nictitating membranes, like Earth cats, and they have heat-sensitive pits behind their noses.
4
Almond eyes of burning gold nictitated to life.
5
Our craniote ancestors had a third eye-lid, the nictitating membrane, which was drawn over the eye from its inner angle.
6
An Aberrant man with a bulbous forehead and nictitating membranes across his eyes rushed past her, paused, and turned back.
7
The open beak revealed rows of small, very sharp teeth, and the yellow, lizard-like eyes were covered with nictitating membranes.
8
(1) The plica semilunaris as a vestige of the nictitating membrane of certain birds.
9
One which I kept alive was certainly in this condition, the cause, as appeared on dissection, having been inflammation of the nictitating membrane.