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
- verb To close and open the eyes quickly.
- verb To flash on and off, especially at regular intervals.
- verb To back down or show hesitation in a standoff, as in the phrase "blink first."
- noun The act of quickly closing and opening the eyes, or a very brief moment.
flicker — full definition
- verb To shine or burn unsteadily, with light that wavers.
- verb To appear and disappear briefly; to flutter.
- noun An unsteady, wavering flash of light.
- noun A type of small woodpecker.