| Main Entry: | wink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flutter, flick |
Synonyms: |
bat, blink, flash, gleam, glimmer, glitter, nictate, nictitate, sparkle, squinch, squint, twinkle |
| Main Entry: | wink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moment |
Synonyms: |
flash*, instant, jiffy, minute, second, shake*, split second, twinkle, twinkling |
| Main Entry: | alarm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning, signaling device |
Synonyms: |
Mayday, SOS, alert, bell, blast, buzzer, call, caution, clock, cry, drum, flap, flash*, forewarning, gong, high sign, horn, nod, scramble*, scream, shout, sign, signal, siren, squeal, tip, tip off, tocsin, trumpet, warning, whistle, wink, yell |
| Main Entry: | alert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning |
Synonyms: |
Mayday, SOS, admonition, alarm, flap, high sign, sign, signal, siren, tip off, wink |
| Main Entry: | gesture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion as communication |
Synonyms: |
action, body language, bow, curtsy, expression, genuflection, gesticulation, high sign, indication, intimation, kinesics, mime, nod, pantomime, reminder, salute, shrug, sign, sign language, signal, token, wave, wink |
| Notes: | gesticulate and gesture are based on Latin gerere 'bear, carry, perform' and gesticulation is more exaggerated than a gesture, often involving flailing; originally, a person's gesture was their 'bearing' or the way they 'carried' themselves |
Antonyms: |
speech |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, flea in ear, glimmering, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, signification, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, tip-off, token, trace, warning, whiff, whisper, wink, word to wise, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; indicate |
Synonyms: |
acquaint, adumbrate, advise, allude to, angle, apprise, bring up, broach, coax, connote, cue, drop, expose, fish*, foreshadow, give an inkling, impart, imply, infer, inform, insinuate, intimate, jog memory, leak*, let it be known, let out of bag, make*, mention, point, prefigure, press, prompt, put flea in ear, recall, refer to, remind, say in passing, shadow, signify, solicit, spring, tip off, tip one's hand, touch on, whisper, wink |
| Main Entry: | ignore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disregard on purpose |
Synonyms: |
avoid, be oblivious to, blink, brush off, bury one's head in sand, cold-shoulder, discount, disdain, evade, fail, forget, let it go, look the other way, neglect, omit, overlook, overpass, pass over, pay no attention to, pay no mind, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, shut eyes to, slight, take no notice, tune out, turn back on, turn blind eye, turn deaf ear, wink |
Antonyms: |
acknowledge, heed, look at, note, notice, pay attention, recognize, regard, take notice |
| Main Entry: | indication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, clue |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, attestation, augury, auspice, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, forewarning, gesture, hint, implication, index, indicia, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, signifier, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink |
Antonyms: |
misinformation |
| Main Entry: | instant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moment |
Synonyms: |
bat of the eye, breath, crack, flash, jiffy, juncture, minute, nothing flat, occasion, point, sec, second, shake*, short while, split second, tick, time, trice, twinkling, while, wink |