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МиГ — meaning in English

MiG

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English meaning

  • blink verb To close and open the eyes quickly.
  • flicker verb To shine or burn unsteadily, with light that wavers.
  • jiff noun A very short amount of time; a moment.
  • jiffy noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
  • mig noun A milligram, informally abbreviated.
  • moment noun A very short period of time, or a particular point in time.
  • second adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.
  • tick noun A small blood-feeding arachnid that attaches to the skin of animals and humans.
  • trice noun A very short time; a moment. Almost always used in the phrase "in a trice".
  • wink verb To close and quickly reopen one eye as a signal, joke, or private message to someone.

Senses

МиГ is used for these senses in English:

  • MiG Any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft.
  • blink (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
  • flicker (figurative) A short moment.
  • jiff (informal) A jiffy; a moment; a short time.
  • jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
  • moment (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
  • second A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
  • second (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.

blink — full definition

  1. verb To close and open the eyes quickly.
  2. verb To flash on and off, especially at regular intervals.
  3. verb To back down or show hesitation in a standoff, as in the phrase "blink first."
  4. noun The act of quickly closing and opening the eyes, or a very brief moment.

flicker — full definition

  1. verb To shine or burn unsteadily, with light that wavers.
  2. verb To appear and disappear briefly; to flutter.
  3. noun An unsteady, wavering flash of light.
  4. noun A type of small woodpecker.

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