sparkle vs wink

sparkle

verb
  • To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle 

  • To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash. 

  • To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles 

  • To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce 

  • To emit in the form or likeness of sparks. 

noun
  • Brilliance; luster. 

  • Liveliness; vivacity. 

  • The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence. 

  • A little spark; a scintillation. 

wink

verb
  • To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker. 

  • To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink. 

  • 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.) 

  • To close one's eyes. 

  • Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye. 

noun
  • Synonym of periwinkle 

  • A brief time; an instant. 

  • The smallest possible amount. 

  • A subtle allusion. 

  • An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. 

  • A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. 

  • Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”) 

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