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GLOWING
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("glowing" is a kind of...):
light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glowing"):
aureole; corona (the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse)
II. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Highly enthusiastic
Example:
glowing praise
Classified under:
Similar:
enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)
III. (verb)
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-ing form of the verb glow
Context examples:
At that moment she first perceived him, and her whole countenance glowing with sudden delight, she would have moved towards him instantly, had not her sister caught hold of her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“How is it possible?” cried Emma, turning her glowing cheeks towards him; for, while she spoke, it occurred to her that he might have called at Mrs. Goddard's in his way.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with ME?” roared Silver, bending far forward from his position on the keg, with his pipe still glowing in his right hand.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
After that, all that remains of the star is what we see here: glowing outer layers surrounding a white dwarf star, the remnants of the red giant star’s core.
(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)
He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By Saint Paul! cried Sir Nigel, with his one eye glowing like an ember, these appear to be two very worthy and debonair gentlemen.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cries of the people in the galleries, who were alarmed at the near approach of those glowing eyes and that murderous beak, excited the creature to a frenzy.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The magnetic field causes aurorae, which are ribbons of glowing, hot electrified gas, in regions circling the north and south poles of the moon.
(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)
