Wink
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To close one's eyes. To turn a blind eye. To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. To twinkle. To send an indication of agreement by winking.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. A brief time; an instant. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
Example sentence: The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
Blink
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To close and reopen both eyes quickly.To flash headlights on a car.To send a signal with a lighting device.To flash on and off at regular intervals.To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
Example sentence: Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world.