Glow
[gləʊ] or [ɡlo]
Definition
(noun.) a feeling of considerable warmth; 'the glow of new love'; 'a glow of regret'.
(noun.) a steady even light without flames.
(verb.) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; 'She was beaming with joy'; 'Her face radiated with happiness'.
(verb.) be exuberant or high-spirited; 'Make the people's hearts glow'.
(verb.) emit a steady even light without flames; 'The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden'.
(verb.) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; 'Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna'.
Typist: Trevor--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
(v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
(v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
(v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
(v. t.) To make hot; to flush.
(n.) White or red heat; incandscence.
(n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
(n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
(n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
Typist: Natalie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Be incandescent.[2]. Shine brightly.[3]. Burn, be hot.[4]. Be ardent, be warm, feel intensely.
n. [1]. Incandescence, white heat.[2]. Brightness, bright color.[3]. Ardor, vehemence, impetuosity, fervency, fervor, enthusiasm.
Editor: Pasquale
Definition
v.i. to shine with an intense heat: to feel great heat of body: to be flushed: to feel the heat of passion: to be ardent.—n. shining or white heat: unusual warmth: brightness of colour: vehemence of passion.—p.adj. Glow′ing shining with intense light white with heat: ardent fervent fiery.—adv. Glow′ingly.—ns. Glow′-lamp an incandescent lamp usually electric; Glow′-worm a name given to many beetles in the sub-family Lampyrides having phosphorescent structures on the abdomen.
Typist: Natalie
Examples
- The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- While the arcs with plain carbons are bluish-white, those with carbons containing calcium fluoride have a notable golden glow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You oughter see, now, said Marks, in a glow of professional pride, how I can tone it off. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As she said it, with her eyes upon the fire-glow, there was an instantaneous escape of distress into her face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She threw off her mantle and bonnet, and sat down opposite to him, enjoying the glow, but lifting up her beautiful hands for a screen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A glow rested on them, such as tinged her complexion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A sort of renewed youth glowed in his eye and colour, and an invigorated hope and settled purpose sustained his bearing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- With this unconfessed confession, her letters glowed; it kindled them, from greeting to adieu. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The cigarette glowed brightly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The small timber room glowed with the dawn, that came upwards from the low window. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She sat like a strange queen, almost supernatural in her glowing smiling richness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His blue, keen eyes were lit up with laughter, his ruddy face, with its sharp fair hair, was full of satisfaction, and glowing with life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They saw the golden lights of the hotel glowing out in the night of snow-silence, small in the hollow, like a cluster of yellow berries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The piece of lime glows with an intense brilliancy approximating that of the electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The wood which blazes on the hearth, the coal which glows in the furnace, and the oil which burns in the stove owe their existence to the sun. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The absence of air prevents the filament from burning, and it merely glows and radiates the light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the fish is quiet its colors are dull, but when it is irritated it glows with metallic splendor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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