Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or state of giving out intense heat and light.
- noun Ardor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective softly bright or radiant.
- adjective highly enthusiastic.
- adjective brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.
- adjective prenominal afire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
glow . - noun The action of the verb
glow . - adjective That glows or glow.
- adjective figuratively Full of
praise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly enthusiastic
- noun the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
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Examples
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"Suppose there was a great, wide steel grate here, and a great glowing fire -- a _glowing_ fire -- with beds of red-hot coal and lots of little dancing, flickering flames.
Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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On my side I've been mostly focused on what I call a glowing box report which is the daily report that we produce for our terminal partners.
Canadian National Railway CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010
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A husband and wife might be linked by a thin glowing tether.
Making Whuffie – Social Networks and New Economic Incentives in 2020 | Impact Lab 2010
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Abrahamson and Dinniss suggested that as the silicon vapour cools, it condenses into a floating aerosol, bound into a ball by charges that gather on its surface and glowing from the heat of the silicon recombining with oxygen.
Ball lightning ewillett 2010
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The tributes were rather more glowing from the midfielder's Tottenham team-mates.
Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale praised for display at Internazionale David Hytner 2010
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The publishers advertised A Dream of a Throne: the Story of a Mexican Revolt in glowing terms: A powerful and highly dramatic romance, dealing with a popular Mexican uprising half a century ago.
American novelist Charles Fleming Embree set his first novel at Lake Chapala 2009
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Certainly the the back of You Don't Scare Me praises his work in glowing terms drawn from reviews by the likes of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Fangoria, F. Paul Wilson and Richard Matheson.
What I've Just Read: You Don't Scare Me ewillett 2009
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The publishers advertised A Dream of a Throne: the Story of a Mexican Revolt in glowing terms: A powerful and highly dramatic romance, dealing with a popular Mexican uprising half a century ago.
American novelist Charles Fleming Embree set his first novel at Lake Chapala 2009
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Abrahamson and Dinniss suggested that as the silicon vapour cools, it condenses into a floating aerosol, bound into a ball by charges that gather on its surface and glowing from the heat of the silicon recombining with oxygen.
Ball lightning ewillett 2010
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The dare-o-meter exploded into multicolored confetti and declared MIDNIGHT in glowing, pulsing, yellow letters.
hernesheir commented on the word glowing
Stirring visuals!
November 30, 2011