Definitions for twinkle
ˈtwɪŋ kəltwin·kle

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. twinkle, scintillation, sparklingnoun

   a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

2. sparkle, twinkle, spark, lightverb

   merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

   "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"

3. flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkleverb

   gleam or glow intermittently

   "The lights were flashing"

4. twinkle, winkle, scintillateverb

   emit or reflect light in a flickering manner

   "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. twinklenoun

   a sparkle or glimmer of light

2. twinklenoun

   a sparkle of delight in the eyes.

   He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.

3. twinklenoun

   a flitting movement

4. twinkleverb

   to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer

5. twinkleverb

   to be bright with delight

   His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.

6. twinkleverb

   to bat, blink or wink the eyes

7. twinkleverb

   to flit to and fro

8. Etymology: from twinclian

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twinkle, Twinklingnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A sparkling intermitting light; a motion of the eye.

   Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye,
   The damsel broke his misintended dart. Edmund Spenser.

   I come, I come; the least twinkle had brought me to thee. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

   2. A short space, such as is taken up by a motion of the eye.

   Money can thy wants at will supply,
   Shields, steeds, and arms, and all things for thee meet,
   It can pourvey in twinkling of an eye. Fairy Queen.

   These false beauties of the stage are no more lasting than a rainbow; when the actor gilds them no longer with his reflection, they vanish in a twinkling. Dryden.

   The action, passion, and manners of so many persons in a picture, are to be discerned in the twinkling of an eye, if the sight could travel over so many different objects all at once. Dryden.

2. To Twinkleverb

   Etymology: twinclian , Saxon.

   1. To sparkle; to flash irregularly; to shine with intermitted light; to shine faintly; to quiver.

   At first I did adore a twinkling star,
   But now I worship a celestial sun. William Shakespeare.

   As plays the sun upon the glassey streams,
   Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
   So seems this gorgeous beauty. William Shakespeare.

   Some their forked tails stretch forth on high,
   And tear the twinkling stars from trembling sky. Edward Fairfax.

   God comprises all the goods we value in the creatures, as the sun doth the light that twinkles in the stars. Boyle.

   The star of love,
   That twinkles you to fair Almeyda’s bed. Dryden.

   Think you your new French proselytes are come
   To starve abroad, because they starv’d at home,
   Your benefices twinkl’d from afar. Dryden.

   So weak your charms, that like a winter’s night,
   Twinkling with stars, they freeze me while they light. Dryd.

   These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes which have large apertures: for the rays of light which pass through divers parts of the aperture, tremble each of them apart; and by means of their various, and sometimes contrary tremors, fall at one and the same time upon different points in the bottom of the eye. Newton.

   2. To open and shut the eye by turns.

   The owl fell a moping and twinkling. Roger L'Estrange.

   3. To play irregularly.

   His eyes will twinkle, and his tongue will roll,
   As tho’ he beck’ned, and call’d back his soul. John Donne.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twinkleverb

   to open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink

2. Twinkleverb

   to shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate

3. Twinklenoun

   a closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye

4. Twinklenoun

   a brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated

5. Twinklenoun

   the time of a wink; a twinkling

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1. TWINKLE

   TWINKLE is a hypothetical integer factorization device described in 1999 by Adi Shamir and purported to be capable of factoring 512-bit integers. The name is an acronym of "The Weizmann Institute Key Locating Engine". It is also a pun on the twinkling LEDs used in the device. The goal of TWINKLE is to implement the sieving step of the Number Field Sieve algorithm, which is the fastest known algorithm for factoring large integers. The sieving step, at least for 512-bit and larger integers, is the most time consuming step of NFS. It involves testing a large set of numbers for B-'smoothness', i.e., absence of a prime factor greater than a specified bound B. What is remarkable about TWINKLE is that it is not a purely digital device. It gets its efficiency by eschewing binary arithmetic for an "optical" adder which can add hundreds of thousands of quantities in a single clock cycle. The key idea used is "time-space inversion". Conventional NFS sieving is carried out one prime at a time. For each prime, all the numbers to be tested for smoothness in the range under consideration which are divisible by that prime have their counter incremented by the logarithm of the prime. TWINKLE, on the other hand, works one candidate smooth number at a time. There is one LED corresponding to each prime smaller than B. At the time instant corresponding to X, the set of LEDs glowing corresponds to the set of primes that divide X. This can be accomplished by having the LED associated with the prime p glow once every p time instants. Further, the intensity of each LED is proportional to the logarithm of the corresponding prime. Thus, the total intensity equals the sum of the logarithms of all the prime factors of X smaller than B. This intensity is equal to the logarithm of X if and only if X is B-smooth.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twinkle

   twing′kl, v.i. to blink: to shine with a trembling, sparkling light: to sparkle: to open and shut the eyes rapidly: to quiver.—ns. Twink′le, Twink′ling, a quick motion of the eye: the time occupied by a wink: an instant: the scintillation of the fixed stars; Twink′ler. [A.S. twinclian.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of twinkle in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of twinkle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of twinkle in a Sentence

1. Bethenny Frankel:

   We met on a dating app, i was pretty lucky when I walked in and saw him. He had a twinkle. He came as advertised — better than advertised. He overshot the mark.

2. Dorothea Kent:

   A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

3. Phil Brock:

   Pat had the ability to bring laughter and kindness to any role. The twinkle in his Irish eyes let you know that you were in on the joke.

4. Angie Johnston:

   A lot more work is going to be needed. For instance, this study used a method where dogs were either in the condition where the guardian hummed' Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' or they were in the condition where the owner made distressed noises, but it would be really interesting to look, across dogs, at how in one particular dog at a time, how the context affects how much they help, it would be really useful to know down the line what could we as humans do to get the effective helpful responses from dogs.

5. Robert Massey:

   Unlike stars, Royal Astronomical Society won't twinkle, even when Royal Astronomical Society's low down, Royal Astronomical Society will look pretty steady, and Royal Astronomical Society will make Royal Astronomical Society stand out. You'll need a good clear southern horizon to see it.

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