Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame.
- intransitive verb To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color.
- intransitive verb To flush; blush.
- intransitive verb To be exuberant or radiant.
- noun A light produced by a body heated to luminosity; incandescence.
- noun Brilliance or warmth of color, especially redness.
- noun A sensation of physical warmth.
- noun A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To burn with an intense heat, especially without flame; give forth bright light and heat; be incandescent.
- Hence To radiate heat and light in a marked degree; appear incandescent; be very bright and hot.
- To feel a more or less intense sensation of heat; be hot, as the skin; have a burning sensation.
- To exhibit a strong bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant; shine vividly.
- To feel the heat of passion; be ardent; be animated by intense love, zeal, anger, or the like.
- To be intense or vehement; have or exhibit force, ardor, or animation.
- To stare with amazement.
- To heat so as to produce color or brilliancy; produce a flush in.
- noun Shining heat, or white heat; incandescence.
- noun Brightness of color; vivid redness: as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
- noun A flush of sensation or feeling, as of pleasure, pain, etc.; ardor; vehemence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Poetic To make hot; to flush.
- noun White or red heat; incandscence.
- noun Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush.
- noun Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
- noun Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
- intransitive verb To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
- intransitive verb 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.
- intransitive verb To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
- intransitive verb To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
- verb To radiate some emotional quality like light.
- verb To
gaze especially passionately at something. - verb To radiate thermal heat.
- verb To shine brightly and steadily.
- verb To sweat
- noun The state of a glowing object.
- noun The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
- noun The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb shine intensely, as if with heat
- noun the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- noun an alert and refreshed state
- noun a feeling of considerable warmth
- noun a steady even light without flames
- verb emit a steady even light without flames
- noun light from nonthermal sources
- verb have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- verb be exuberant or high-spirited
- noun an appearance of reflected light
- verb experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- noun the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Professor Shairp defined the soul of poetry when he wrote: "Whenever the soul comes vividly in contact with any fact, truth, or existence, which it realizes and takes home to itself with more than common intensity, out of that meeting of the soul and its object there arises a thrill of joy, a glow of emotion; and the expression of that _glow_, that _thrill_, is poetry."
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester
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It is curious to observe the relation _of glow, brush_, and _spark_ to each other, as produced by positive or negative surfaces; thus, beginning with spark discharge, it passes into brush much sooner when the surface at which the discharge commences (1484.) is negative, than it does when positive; but proceeding onwards in the order of change, we find that the positive brush passes into _glow_ long before the negative brush does.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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I have no doubt that if, as many believe, the aurora borealis is produced by sudden cosmic disturbances, such as eruptions at the sun's surface, which set the electrostatic charge of the earth in an extremely rapid vibration, the red glow observed is not confined to the upper rarefied strata of the air, but the discharge traverses, by reason of its very high frequency, also the dense atmosphere in the form of a _glow_, such as we ordinarily produce in a slightly exhausted tube.
Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Nikola Tesla 1899
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The redish colours at the top represent the glow from the city of Yellowknife while below, Aurora Borealis swirls over treetops.
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Its hard to say the amount of blood needed to make blood glow is soooo much that you could just us a regular light to see them.
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Its hard to say the amount of blood needed to make blood glow is soooo much that you could just us a regular light to see them.
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A chuck roast doesn't bring back the memories of the glow from the fireplace the night before the hunt or the whisper of the wind through the autumn leaves as I sat in my stand enjoying th crisp, fall day.
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For a second both of the women are caught in the glow from the lighter's fiery tip.
Castanets '84 Ginnah Howard 2010
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One slept and two others watched the darkness slip away behind them in a red glow from the taillights.
The domino theory James Lloyd Davis 2010
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