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Definition: Glint |
GlintNoun1. A momentary flash of light. 2. A spatially localized brightness. Verb1. Be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening". 2. Throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "glint" is archaic; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
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Post & Telecom | A distorted radar signal which varies in amplitude from pulse to pulse. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
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GLINT | English | Gospel Literature International | Religion & Philosophy |
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Synonyms: GlintSynonyms: flicker (n), spark (n), glance (v), gleam (v), glisten (v), glitter (v), peek (v), shine (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glint |
| English words defined with "glint": devilish, diabolic, diabolical ♦ Glent, Glinted ♦ mephistophelean, mephistophelian. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glint": Gleen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glint" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Faeroese (jingle, tinkle). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Glint (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Paddling through the Patuxent marshes on a bright winter's day. Sun glint sparkles on the water. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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 | Volt; voltage; electricity; spark; atom; beam; fire; flare; flicker; gleam; glint; glitter; glow; hint; jot; nucleus; ray; scintilla; scintillation; scrap; sparkle; spit; trace; vestige; dangerous; glitter; glint; sparkle; sparkling. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze |
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| "Glint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.80% of the time. "Glint" is used about 219 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 (singular) | 96.8% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.28% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.91% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 219 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "glint": glint of anger. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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glint | 46 |
glint tape | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "glint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xixë (spark), vezullon (blink, click, coruscate, glance), shkreptimë (flash), shkëlqim (aureola, aureole, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, distinction, eclat, effulgence, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flame, glitter, glory, gloss, glow, halo, irradiation, lambency, luster, lustre, nimbus, pageantry, polish, pomp, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), shkëlqej (blaze, bloom, flame, flash, fulgurate, gild, glare, gleam, glisten, glister, glitter, glory, glow, light, polish, scintillate, shed, shine). (various references) | |
Arabic | وميض (flash, glimmer, photoflash, shimmer, twinkle, twinkling), تلألأ (glisten, luster, lustre, scintillate, shimmer, spangle, sparkle, twinkle), تألق (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, dazzle, effulgence, glitter, glory, irradiate, luminosity, magnificence, outshine, radiance, radiate, ray, refulgence, scintillate, shine, shine through, sparkle, star, vivacity), أومض (blink, glance, glimmer, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отблясък (gleam, glimmer, reflection), блясък (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, dash, eclat, effulgence, fire, flash, glamor, glamour, glance, glitter, glory, gloss, glossiness, heraldry, illumination, irradiation, lambency, light, luminance, luminosity, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), просветвам (lighten), проблясък (flight, glance, glimmer, glimmering), проблясвам (flash, flicker, glimmer, shine through). (various references) | |
Chinese | 閃耀 . (various references) | |
Czech | zablýsknutí, záblesk (blink, flare, flash, gleam, glimmer, glimpse, twinkle), třpytit se (blaze, coruscate, gleam, glisten, glister, glitter, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle), třpyt (coruscation, dazzle, gleam, glitter, radiance, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), odlesk (reflection), lesknout se (be sparkling clean, gleam, glissade, glisten, shimmer, shine). (various references) | |
Danish | glimt. (various references) | |
Dutch | flikkeren (flare, flash, flicker). (various references) | |
Farsi | تلالو (Glitter, Sparkle), تابیدن (Glow, Radiate, Shine, Stoke, Sun, Twist), تابانیدن , تابش (Brilliance, Flame, Glitter, Glow, Sheen, Shine), زودگذر (Ephemeral, Fleet, Frail, Glancing, Light, Memnetary, Perishable, Shadowy, Temporary, Transient, Transitory), ظهورانی , درخشیدن (Glisten, Glitter, Glory, Lamp, Lighten, Luster, Ray, Scintillate, Sheen, Shine, Star), درخشانیدن , برق (Brilliance, Electricity, Flash, Glaze, Scintillation, Sheen, Sparkle). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiilua (glimmer, glow). (various references) | |
French | scintiller (glitter). (various references) | |
German | glitzern (glisten, glitter, twinkle), Flackern (flare, flicker, unsteadiness). (various references) | |
Greek | λάμψη (glare, glow). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להבהיק (brighten, glisten, glitter, polish, shine), לנצנץ (flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle), הבזק (flare, flash), נצנוץ (flash, flickering, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glistening, glitter, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | villanás (flash, gleam), villogás (phosphorescence), villódzás (phosphorescence), felvillanás (flash), felcsillanás (glimmer), csillogó fény (glitter), csillogás (glisten, glitter, twinkle), csillanás (gleam). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kilatan. (various references) | |
Italian | scintillio (glittering, sparkling, twinkle, twinkling), luccicare (gleam, glisten, glitter, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle), brillare (shine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 閃光 (flash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せんこう (acting arbitrarily, arbitrary action, batting first, bright red, departure of the emperor from the capital, distinguished war service, fine workmanship, flash, going first, incense stick, light red, major subject, merit of war, one's late father, ore sorting, perforation, polarimetric, preceding, punching, rupture, scarlet, screening, selection, special study, submarine voyage, travelling in disguise, travelling incognito, underwater navigation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | glitre (glisten, glitter), glimt (flash, gleam, glimpse), blinke (flash). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tremeluzir (glimmer, glitter, twinkle, whiffle, wink), resplendor (fire, flush, glisten, glitter, halo, nimbus, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), reluzir (coruscate, flash, glisten, glitter, lamp, shine, sparkle), raio de luz (glance, stream), clarão de luz, cintilar (blink, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glister, glitter, ray, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle, wink), cintilação (effulgence, flashing, glisten, glitter, lambency, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle, twinkling), brilhar (shine). (various references) | |
Romanian | scânteia (coruscate, flash, glance, gleam, glisten, glitter, kindle, scintillate, spark, sparkle, twinkle), reflex de luminã, licãrire (blink, glance, glimmer, glimpse, glitter, Ray, shimmer, spark, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle), face sã scânteieze. (various references) | |
Russian | вспышка (flare), отблеск (gleam, loom, reflex), блестеть блеск (glitter), блестеть (glisten), блеск (sheen, brilliance, brilliancy, gloss, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, scintillation), давать отблеск. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svetlucati (gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glisten, glister, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle), odsjaj (gleam, reflection). (various references) | |
Spanish | centelleo (scintillation). (various references) | |
Swedish | glittra (glisten), glitter (glitter, spangle, tinsel), glimt (gleam, glimpse). (various references) | |
Thai | แสงวาบ, ส่องแสงวูบวาบ, สะท้อนแสง. (various references) | |
Turkish | parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parıltı (blink, glance, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), kıvılcım saçmak (scintillate, spark, sparkle), kıvılcım (spark, spark of, sparklet, spunk), ışıltı (blaze, blink, flash, light, shining, twinkle), ışıldamak (blink, coruscate, gleam, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спалах (blaze, burst, deflagration, explosion, flare, flare up, flash, outleap, rage, spark), глянути мигцем, відбивати світло (gleam), блискати (flash, fulminate, glance), погляд мигцем. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tia sáng loé, tia sáng (spark), tia lấp lánh tia phản chiếu. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glint": glinted, glinting, glints. (additional references) | |
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"Glint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elint, gaint, galent, gilat, Gilot, Ginott, gint, ginty, glant, glart, glatt, gli, glibt, glien, glin, gline, gling, glink, Glinns, Glins, glinty, glinz, glit, gloin, glunt, Glynch, goint, gointuh, Grint, Guinot, guint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glint" (pronounced gli"nt) |
| 4 | -l i" n t | Flint, lint, splint. |
| 3 | -i" n t | imprint, dint, hint, mint, misprint, print, quint, reprint, sprint, squint, stint, tint. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: gilt, ling, lint, ting. | |
-2 letters: gin, git, lin, lit, nil, nit, til, tin. | |
-3 letters: in, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: gentil, glints, luting, tiglon, tiling, tingle, tingly, toling. | |
+2 letters: antilog, atingle, belting, biltong, bolting, butling, catling, elating, eluting, fatling, felting, fliting, fluting, flyting, gelatin, genital, gentile, gillnet, glinted, glisten, halting, hilting, intagli, jilting, jolting, kilting, kinglet, kitling, lasting, lathing, lentigo, letting, lifting, lighten, lignite, lilting, listing, lofting, looting, lotting, louting, lunting, lusting, lutings, malting, melting, milting, molting, nightly, pelting, plating, ringlet, salting, silting, singlet, slating, staling, styling, tabling, tailing, talcing, talking, telling, tholing, tiglons, tilings, tilling, tilting, tingled, tingler, tingles, tirling, titling, toiling, tolling, tooling, welting, wilting, winglet, witling. | |
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