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glow
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)
- To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
- To radiate some emotional quality like light.
- To gaze especially passionately at something.
- (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
- To shine brightly and steadily.
- (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
- (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)
- The state of a glowing object.
- The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
- 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
- Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).
Etymology 2
From Old French gluer.
Verb
glow
- Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).
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scintillate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scintill?tus, past participle of scintill?re (“to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash”), from scintilla (“a spark”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?nt?le?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nt?le?t/
- Hyphenation: scin?til?late
Verb
scintillate (third-person singular simple present scintillates, present participle scintillating, simple past and past participle scintillated)
- (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
- (astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
- (nuclear physics) Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
- (astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
- (transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, [1860], OCLC 863553483, page 201:
- As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, [1860], OCLC 863553483, page 201:
Derived terms
- scintillating (adjective)
- scintillation
- scintillator
Related terms
- scintilla
- stencil
- tinsel
Translations
Further reading
- scintillate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scintillate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- scintillate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Verb
scintillate
- second-person plural present and imperative of scintillare
Latin
Verb
scintill?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of scintill?
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