glow
has definitions from the fields of physics,medicine
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[ verb ] emit a steady even light without flames
Examples "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)He devised a detonating_fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric_current . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)During a 1933 tsunami in Japan the sea glowed brilliantly at night . (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)Lighted windows glowed jewel bright through the downpour . Its windows glowed with lamplight . Related terms |
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[ verb ] esp. of the complexion: show a strong bright color, such as red or pink
Examples "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" Used in print (Francis Pollini, Night....)He glowed with anticipation about what would happen to the culprits when they caught them . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Her tanned foot , whose arch swept high and white , pointed artfully toward tapering toes - toes like fingers , whose tips glowed white . |
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[ noun ] (physics) light from nonthermal sources
Synonyms Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)Two gas_lamps were no more than a misleading glow . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)The red glow from the cove had died_out of the sky . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (medicine) an alert and refreshed state
Synonyms Used in print ("Editorials"...)A compromise will leave both sides without the glow of triumph , but it will save Berlin . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)Mickie had a pleasant glow as he said , `` You see , both of them , I mean the President and Jeff_Lawrence , are romantics . When he was in the war , he was in Law or Supplies or something like that , and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals - just like the one we sent_in for Trig - and go_away with a real glow . Related terms |
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[ verb ] shine intensely, as if with heat
Synonyms Examples "The coals were glowing in the dark" "The candles were burning" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Soon they were picking their way along the edge of the stream which glowed in the night . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (physics) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
Synonyms Used in print (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)To get it out into the daylight 's glow Is my life 's aim both first and last , the whole . |
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[ noun ] a feeling of considerable warmth
Examples "the glow of new love" "a glow of regret" Related terms |
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