different between glow vs animation

English

Etymology

From Middle English glowen, from Old English gl?wan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?an?, from Proto-Indo-European *??el-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa. See also glass.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

glow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (nonstandard) glew, past participle glowed or (nonstandard) glown)

1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
4. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.

5. To shine brightly and steadily.
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
7. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

   • Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

   • 1727, John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan

     The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

Derived terms

• glew
• outglow

Related terms

• gleed

Translations

Noun

glow (countable and uncountable, plural glows)

1. The state of a glowing object.
2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

   He had a bright red glow on his face.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gowl, w.l.o.g., wlog

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English gl?wian.

Verb

glow

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

Etymology 2

From Old French gluer.

Verb

glow

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).

English

Etymology

From Latin animatio, from animare, equivalent to animate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æn.??me?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

animation (countable and uncountable, plural animations)

1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
   • 1647, Joseph Hall, Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members, as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:

     […] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.

2. (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) so produced
3. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

   He recited the story with great animation.

4. The condition of being animate or alive.

   • Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.

5. (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
6. Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.

Synonyms

• (the act of breathing life into something): vitalization, vivification, enlivenment
• (the state of being lively): airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity
• (the condition of being alive): life

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (anim?shon)

Translations

Anagrams

• amination

French

Etymology

From Latin animatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.ma.sj??/

Noun

animation f (plural animations)

1. animation

Further reading

• “animation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

animation c

1. animation

Declension