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 .

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[ verb ] esp. of the complexion: show a strong bright color, such as red or pink

Synonyms

shine radiate beam

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 .

Related terms

look gleam

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[ noun ] (physics) light from nonthermal sources

Synonyms

luminescence

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

luminosity

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[ noun ] (medicine) an alert and refreshed state

Synonyms

freshness

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

good_health

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[ verb ] shine intensely, as if with heat

Synonyms

burn

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

shine gutter incandescence

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[ verb ] be exuberant or high-spirited

Examples

"Make the people's hearts glow"

Related terms

feel freshness

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[ noun ] (physics) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

Synonyms

incandescence

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 .

Related terms

light burn

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[ noun ] a feeling of considerable warmth

Examples

"the glow of new love" "a glow of regret"

Related terms

feeling

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[ noun ] (physics) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

Synonyms

radiance glowing

Related terms

light aureole

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[ noun ] (physics) a steady even light without flames

Related terms

light sky_glow

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[ verb ] experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

Synonyms

radiate shine beam

Examples

"She was beaming with joy" "Her face radiated with happiness"

Related terms

feel radiance

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[ noun ] an appearance of reflected light

Related terms

radiance

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