different between wink vs zink

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English winken (strong verb) and Middle English winken (weak verb), from Old English *wincan (strong verb) and wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-Germanic *winkan? (“to move side to side, sway”), *wink?n (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit ?????? (vañcati, “he swaggers”).

Verb

wink (third-person singular simple present winks, present participle winking, simple past and past participle winked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 43:

     When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,

     For all the day they view things unrespected;

     But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,

     And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.

2. (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis:

     Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again,

     And I will wink; so shall the day seem night […]

   • 1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, Chapter the Fifth:

     I kept my eyes shut, after once glancing at him; and, I protest, I thought I saw him still, though I winked as close as ever I could.

3. (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) connive, shut one's eyes

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     Therefore the scripture represents wicked men as without understanding […] they are not blind; but they wink; […] though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God […]

   • 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, § 79:

     But whenever obstinacy, which is an open defiance, appears, that cannot be winked at, or neglected, but must, in the first instance, be subdued and mastered; only care must be had, that we mistake not ; and we must be sure it is obstinacy, and nothing else.

4. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
   • 1861 George, Silas Marner, Chapter VI:

     The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who ‘’’winked’’’ […]

5. (transitive, intransitive) To 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.)
   • 1912, Edwin L. Sabin, With Carson and Frémont, Chapter VIII:

     Oliver saw Kit Carson wink at the lieutenant and Lucien Maxwell, as the speech reached them, and it was evident that these three leaders did not believe the Indian tales. Consequently he himself decided that the reports of "evil spirits" awaiting were all bosh.

6. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
   • 1899, Will T. Whitlock, "The Circumflex," Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series:

     Down in the bottoms the sycamore and cottonwood are casting off their yellowing leaves; but the white oak will cling to her gorgeous finery till the blizzard comes shrieking up the gulch to wrest it from her, or until the winking prairie-fire leaps among her branches, and mounting upward to the highest limbs, finally leaves the vain beauty a blackened skeleton.

   • 1920, Katherine Mansfield, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996):

     Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.

Synonyms

• nictitate

Translations

Noun

wink (plural winks)

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 25

     I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
3. A brief time; an instant.
4. The smallest possible amount.
   • 1899, Jack London, "The Men of Forty-Nine: 'Malemute Kid" Deals with a Duel," Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series:

     It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.

5. A subtle allusion.

Derived terms

• nudge nudge wink wink
• wink murder

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

wink (plural winks)

1. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

Etymology 3

Clipping of periwinkle.

Noun

wink (plural winks)

1. (Chiefly British) Periwinkle.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??k/

Verb

wink

1. singular imperative of winken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of winken

English

Noun

zink (countable and uncountable, plural zinks)

1. (music, countable) A type of cornett.
2. (uncountable) Obsolete form of zinc.
   • 1765, Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, The complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 2

     It is prepared, according to Dr. Shaw, as follows: take six ounces of copper, melting it in a wind furnace; add to it one ounce of zink: then stirring the whole well together, pour out the metal immediately.

Derived terms

• zinkist

Central Melanau

Alternative forms

• jing

Etymology

From English zinc, from German Zink, from Zinken.

Noun

zink

1. zinc (Element)

Danish

Etymology

From German Zink (“zinc”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /senk/, [se????]

Noun

zink n or c (singular definite zinket or zinken)

1. zinc

Further reading

• zink on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Zink (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z??k/
• Hyphenation: zink
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Zink.

Noun

zink n (uncountable)

1. zinc

Derived terms

• verzinken
• zinken (“made of zinc”)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sink
• ? Indonesian: seng

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

zink

1. first-person singular present indicative of zinken
2. imperative of zinken

German

Verb

zink

1. singular imperative of zinken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of zinken

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?z???k]

Noun

zink n

1. (uncountable) zinc
2. A part of zinc

Inflection

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Malay

Alternative forms

• seng
• ?????
• ????

Etymology

From English zinc, from German Zink, from Zinken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ze?(k?)]
• Rhymes: -ze?, -e?

Noun

zink (Jawi spelling ????)

1. zinc (Element)

Synonyms

• ayan / ?????
• timah sari / ???? ?????

Swedish

Etymology

From German Zink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nk/

Noun

zink c (uncountable)

1. zinc

Declension

Derived terms

• förzinka

References

• zink in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)