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Definition: GLIM |
GLIMNoun1. A light or candle. 2. Brightness; splendor. |
Date "GLIM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Note: Glim \Glim\, noun. 1. Brightness; splendor. [Obsolete]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Glim (See Douse the Glim .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GLIM. A candle, or dark lantern, used in housebreaking; also fire. To glim; to burn in the hand. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GLIM |
| Specialty definitions using "GLIM": GLIM JACK. (references) |
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| "GLIM" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "GLIM" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GLIM": Douse the glim. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glim | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLIM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | نگاه اجمالی کردن , نورشمع , روشنی (Clarity, Lucidity, Shine), درک جزءی , درخشندگی (Blaze, Brilliance, Glitter, Luster, Radiance, Refulgence, Sheen). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lilin (beeswax, candle, parrafin, wax). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imglay.(various references) | |
Romanian | luminiţã, luminã (culture, glare, glow, illumination, light, lighting, lightness, lucidity, luminous energy, opening, perspective, side light, span, twinkle), lanternã (lamp, lantern, torch). (various references) | |
Swedish | ljus (light, blond, bright, candle, clear, fair, gay). (various references) | |
Thai | แหล่ง / สิ่งที่ให้แสง. (various references) | |
Turkish | göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight), lamba (bulb, illuminant, lamp, light), fener (beacon, cresset, dark lantern, flambeau, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, phanar), ışık kaynağı (light source). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLIM": glime, glimed, glimes, gliming, glimmer, glimmered, glimmering, glimmerings, glimmers, glimpse, glimpsed, glimpser, glimpsers, glimpses, glimpsing, glims. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GLIM": aglimmer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "im": frim, GIM, grim, Lim, Nim, Plim, scrim, shim, slim, VIM. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-m" | |
-1 letter: mig, mil. | |
-2 letters: li, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-m" | |
+1 letter: gimel, glime, glims. | |
+2 letters: gamily, gimbal, gimels, gimlet, gimmal, glimed, glimes, glioma, grimly, laming, liming, lingam, magilp, malign, megilp, midleg, miggle, milage, mingle, muling. | |
+3 letters: ambling, blaming, bluming, calming, culming, cymling, filming, flaming, fluming, gallium, geminal, gemlike, gemmily, gimbals, gimlets, gimmals, gliming, glimmer, glimpse, gliomas, gomeril, gremial, gremlin, grimily, gumboil, gumlike, helming, lambing, lamming, lamping, legumin, lemming, limbing, limning, limping, lingams, loaming, looming, lumping, magical, magilps, mailbag, mailing, maligns, malling, malting, mangily, marling, mauling, megilph, megilps, melding, melling, melting, mewling, midlegs, miggles, milages, milchig, mileage, milking, millage, milling, milting, mingled, mingler, mingles, moiling, molding, molting, muggily, mulling, myalgia, myalgic, palming, pilgrim, pluming, semilog, sliming, smiling, stigmal. | |
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