different between glow vs dazzle

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

daze +? -le, a frequentative form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæz?l/
• Rhymes: -æz?l

Verb

dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled)

1. (transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   Synonyms: impress, overpower

3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

Derived terms

• bedazzle
• dazzler
• dazzlement
• endazzle
• endazzlement

Translations

Noun

dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles)

1. A light of dazzling brilliancy.
2. (figuratively) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
3. (uncommon) A herd of zebra.
   • 1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition):

     We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
4. (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.

Synonyms

• (group of zebras): herd, zeal.

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