'Twinkling' definitions:

Definition of 'twinkling'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling stars"
noun
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute]

Definition of 'Twinkling'

From: GCIDE
  • Twinkle \Twin"kle\ (tw[i^][ng]"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twinkled (tw[i^][ng]"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Twinkling (tw[i^][ng]"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. twinklen, AS. twinclian; akin to OE. twinken to blink, wink, G. zwinken, zwinkern, and perhaps to E. twitch.]
  • 1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. [1913 Webster]
  • The owl fell a moping and twinkling. --L' Estrange. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. [1913 Webster]
  • These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
  • The western sky twinkled with stars. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Twinkling'

From: GCIDE
  • Twinkling \Twin"kling\, n.
  • 1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. [1913 Webster]
  • In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. --1 Cor. xv. 52. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'twinkling'

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