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Definition: Glowing |
GlowingAdjective1. Softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars". 2. Highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise". 3. Burning steadily without flames; "glowing coals". Noun1. The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glowing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Radiation has two slightly different meanings depending upon scientific context. When referring to radioactivity, radiation is the emission of either waves (electromagnetic radiation) or particles (particle radiation). Light can fall into either of these categories, as it is both a wave and particle. In astronomy or when referring to heat transfer, radiation refers only to light in either of its forms.
Radiation is produced by radioactive decay, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, chemical reactions, hot objects, and gases excited by electric currentss.
Radiation is often separated into two categories, ionizing and non-ionizing, to denote the energy and danger of the radiation. Ionization is the process of removing electrons from atoms, leaving electrically charged particles (ions) behind.
Many forms of radiation such as heat, visible light, microwaves, or radio waves do not have sufficient energy to remove electrons from atoms and hence, are called non-ionizing radiation. In the case of heat, for objects at room temperature, most of the energy is transmitted at infra-red wavelengths.
The negatively charged electrons and positively charged nuclei created by ionizing radiation may cause damage in living tissue. The term radioactivity generally refers to the release of ionizing radiation.
Radioactive materials usually release alpha rays (particles similar to the nuclei of helium), beta rays (quickly moving electrons) or gamma rays. Alpha and beta rays can often be shielded by a piece of paper or a thin sheet of steel. They cause most damage when they are emitted inside the human body. Gamma rays are less ionising than either alpha or beta rays, but protection against them requires thicker shielding. They produce damage similar to that caused by X-rays such as burns, cancer, and genetic mutations. Human biology resists germ-line mutation by aborting most mutated conceptuses.
Sources of Radiation
Natural Background Radiation
The earth, and all living things on it, are constantly bombarded by radiation from space, similar to a steady drizzle of rain. Charged particles from the sun and stars interact with the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field to produce a shower of radiation, typically beta and gamma radiation. The dose from cosmic radiation varies in different parts of the world due to many factors including differences in elevation, the effects of the earth's magnetic field and local differences in terrain.
Radioactive material is found throughout nature. It occurs naturally in the soil, water, and vegetation. The major isotopes of concern for terrestrial radiation are uranium and its decay products, such as thorium, radium, and radon. Low levels of uranium, thorium, and their decay products are found everywhere. Some of these materials are ingested with food and water, while others, such as radon, are inhaled. The dose from terrestrial sources varies in different parts of the world. Locations with higher concentrations of uranium and thorium in their soil have higher dose levels.
In addition to the cosmic and terrestrial sources, all people also have radioactive potassium-40, carbon-14, lead-210, and other isotopes inside their bodies from birth. The variation in dose from one person to another is not as great as the variation in dose from cosmic and terrestrial sources.
Man Made Radiation Sources
Natural and artificial radiation sources are identical in their nature and their effect. Above the background level of radiation exposure, the NRC requires that its licensees limit man-made radiation exposure to individual members of the public to 100 mrem (1 mSv) per year, and limit occupational radiation exposure to adults working with radioactive material to 5,000 mrem (50 mSv) per year.
The exposure for an average person is about 360 millirems/year, 81 percent of which comes from natural sources of radiation. The remaining 19 percent results from exposure to man-made radiation sources.
By far, the most significant source of man-made radiation exposure to the general public is from medical procedures, such as diagnostic X-rays, nuclear medicine, and radiation therapy. Some of the major isotopes would be I-131, Tc-99m, Co-60, Ir-192, Cs-137, and others.
In addition, members of the public are exposed to radiation from consumer products, such as tobacco (polonium-210), building materials, combustible fuels (gas, coal, etc.), ophthalmic glass, televisions, luminous watches and dials (tritium), airport X-ray systems, smoke detectors (americium), road construction materials, electron tubes, fluorescent lamp starters, lantern mantles (thorium), etc.
Of lesser magnitude, members of the public are exposed to radiation from the nuclear fuel cycle, which includes the entire sequence from mining and milling of uranium to the disposal of the used (spent) fuel. The effects of such exposure have not been reliably measured. Estimates of exposure are low enough that proponents of nuclear power liken them to the mutagenic power of wearing trousers for two extra minutes per year (because heat causes mutation). Opponents use a cancer per dose model to prove that such activities cause several hundred cases of cancer per year.
In a nuclear war, gamma rays from fallout of nuclear weapons would probably cause the largest number of casualties. Immediately downwind of targets, doses would exceed 30,000 roentgen/hr. 450 R (more than a thousand times the background rate) is fatal to half of a normal population. No survivors have been documented from doses above 600 R.
Occupationally exposed individuals are exposed according to their occupations and to the sources with which they work. The exposure of these individuals to radiation is carefully monitored with the use of pocket-pen-sized instruments called dosimeters.
Some of the isotopes of concern include cobalt-60, cesium-137, americium-241 and Iodine-131. Examples of industries where occupational exposure is a concern include:
- Fuel cycle
- Industrial Radiography
- Radiology Departments (Medical)
- Radiation Oncology Departments
- Nuclear power plant
- Nuclear medicine Departments
- National (government) and university Research Laboratories
The Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Animals
We tend to think of biological effects of radiation in terms of their effect on living cells. For low levels of radiation exposure, the biological effects are so small they may not be detected. The body repairs many types of radiation and chemical damage. Biological effects of radiation on living cells may result in four outcomes:
The associations between radiation exposure and the development of cancer are mostly based on populations exposed to relatively high levels of ionizing radiation (e.g., Japanese atomic bomb survivors, and recipients of selected diagnostic or therapeutic medical procedures).
- injured or damaged cells repair themselves, resulting in no residual damage
- cells die, much like millions of body cells do every day, being replaced through normal biological processes
- cells incorrectly repair themselves resulting in a biophysical change.
- Low levels of ionizing radiation may be beneficial to many types of cells; this phenomenon is termed radiation hormesis, see below.
Cancers associated with high dose exposure include leukemia, breast, bladder, colon, liver, lung, esophagus, ovarian, multiple myeloma, and stomach cancers. Department of Health and Human Services literature also suggests a possible association between ionizing radiation exposure and prostate, nasal cavity/sinuses, pharyngeal and laryngeal, and pancreatic cancer.
The period of time between radiation exposure and the detection of cancer is known as the latent period. Those cancers that may develop as a result of radiation exposure are indistinguishable from those that occur naturally or as a result of exposure to other chemical carcinogens. Furthermore, National Cancer Institute literature indicates that other chemical and physical hazards and lifestyle factors (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption, and diet) significantly contribute to many of these same diseases.
Although radiation may cause cancer at high doses and high dose rates, public health data do not certainly establish the occurrence of cancer following exposure to low doses and dose rates -- below about 10,000 mrem (100 mSv).
Most studies of occupational workers exposed to chronic low-levels of radiation above normal background have shown no adverse biological effects. Even so, the radiation protection community conservatively assumes that any amount of radiation may pose some risk for causing cancer and hereditary effect, and that the risk is higher for higher radiation exposures.
The linear dose-response model suggests that any increase in dose, no matter how small, results in an incremental increase in risk. The LNT hypothesis is accepted by the NRC as a conservative model for estimating radiation risk.
High radiation doses tend to kill cells, while low doses tend to damage or alter the genetic code (DNA) of irradiated cells. High doses can kill so many cells that tissues and organs are damaged immediately. This in turn may cause a rapid whole body response often called Acute Radiation Syndrome. The higher the radiation dose, the sooner the effects of radiation will appear, and the higher the probability of death.
This syndrome was observed in many atomic bomb survivors in 1945 and emergency workers responding to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
Approximately 134 plant workers and firefighters battling the fire at the Chernobyl power plant received high radiation doses (70,000 to 1,340,000 mrem or 700 to 13,400 mSv) and suffered from acute radiation sickness. Of these, 28 died from their radiation injuries.
Radiation hormesis
It has never been proven that very low doses of ionizing radiation are harmful. A small but growing number of studies offer evidence that they may even have some beneficial effects.
A linear, no-threshold (LNT) dose response relationship is widely assumed to be valid by most policy makers and many scientists. However, a small but growing number of scientists hold that this relationship is grossly misleading, and may be totally wrong. One problem is that this relationship ignores known cellular repair mechanisms; cells in all organisms have efficient methods to detect and repair damage.
Some scientists hold that these linear-response curves were created with an anti-nuclear political and social agenda in mind, and have little or no scientific validity.
It is easy to show the fallacy of the linear no-threshold relationship: Background radiation in our everyday environment does not kill people, yet radiation blasts from nuclear fission events (e.g. worst-case meltdowns or nearby atomic bombs) can almost immediately kill a person. These deadly radiation events are nearly a million times more powerful than background radiation. Compare this to taking one aspirin a day (which we may call background level); this has been proven to be harmless for most people, and actually has substantial medical benefits for many people. If one were to take one million aspirin a day, that person would die immediately. The same is true of most essential vitamins and minerals; small amounts are harmless, or even necessary for life. Doses a million times larger are not healthy, and potentially fatal. No scientist would make a linear graph for these phenomena, and then work backwards to prove that aspirin is deadly, or that vitamins and minerals are deadly. Yet this same flaw in logic is often applied to radiation, and to radiation alone.
In fact, there are few, and perhaps none at all, linear dose-relationships in nature that hold true over all dosage scales.
Some scientists point out that when life first arose over 2 billion years ago, it evolved in an environment that had thousands of times more background radiation than we are exposed to today. This means that there must be much more room for life to live safely in a low radiation environment than once was previously imagined. None of this, of course, is meant to minimize the risks of higher levels of ionizing radiation.
See also: radiation poisoning.
Minimizing Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation
Although exposure to ionizing radiation carries a risk, it is impossible to completely avoid exposure. Radiation has always been present in the environment and in our bodies. We can, however, avoid undue exposure.
Although people cannot sense ionizing radiation, there is a range of simple, sensitive instruments capable of detecting minute amounts of radiation from natural and man-made sources.
Dosimeters resemble pens, and can be clipped to one's clothing. They measure an absolute dose received over a period of time. They must be periodically recharged, and the result logged.
Geiger counters and scintillometers measure the dose rate of ionizing radiation directly.
In addition, there are four ways in which we can protect ourselves:
Time: For people who are exposed to radiation in addition to natural background radiation, limiting or minimizing the exposure time will reduce the dose from the radiation source.
Distance: In the same way that the heat from a fire is less intense the further away you are, so the intensity of the radiation decreases the further you are form the source of the radiation. The dose decreases dramatically as you increase your distance from the source.
Shielding: Barriers of lead, concrete, or water give good protection from penetrating radiation such as gamma rays and neutrons. This is why certain radioactive materials are stored or handled under water or by remote control in rooms constructed of thick concrete or lined with lead. There are special plastic shields which stop beta particles and air will stop alpha particles. Inserting the proper shield between you and the radiation source will greatly reduce or eliminate the extra radiation dose.
Shielding can be designed using halving thicknesses, the thickness of material that reduces the radiation by half. Halving thicknesses for gamma rays are discussed in the article gamma rays.
Containment: Radioactive materials are confined in the smallest possible space and kept out of the environment. Radioactive isotopes for medical use, for example, are dispensed in closed handling facilities, while nuclear reactors operate within closed systems with multiple barriers which keep the radioactive materials contained. Rooms have a reduced air pressure so that any leaks occur into the room and not out of it.
In a nuclear war, an effective fallout shelter reduces human exposure at least 1000 times. Most people can accept doses as high as 100 R, distributed over several months, although with increased risk of cancer later in life. Other civil defense measures can help reduce exposure of populations by reducing ingestion of isotopes and occupational exposure during war time. One of these available measures could be the use of potassium iodide (KI) tablets which effectively block the uptake of dangerous radioactive iodine into the human thyroid gland.
See also: Electromagnetic radiation, Particle radiation, Gamma rays, radioactivity, radiation therapy, adaptive radiation, fallout shelter, nuclear war, nuclear weapon, civil defense.
External links
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates radiation exposure in the US: http://www.nrc.gov
- Is radiation good for you? Radiation hormesis
- Biological Effects of Low Level Exposures: Radiation Hormesis
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Radiation."
Synonyms: GlowingSynonyms: aglow(p) (adj), glowing(a) (adj), lambent (adj), lucent (adj), luminous (adj), glow (n), radiance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek. |
Excitation | Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow. |
Feeling | Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over. |
Heat | Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool. |
Vigor | Spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy,spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious. |
Adverb: in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms. | |
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Crosswords: Glowing |
| English words defined with "glowing": Aestuous, ardent ♦ burn ♦ candescent, coal ♦ ember, Excandescence, Excandescent ♦ Gleed, glow, glowingly ♦ In hot water ♦ Laving ♦ noctilucent ♦ red-hot ♦ white, white-hot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glowing": Ash flow ♦ Black body radiation ♦ Charcoal ♦ gas spectrum, Gleeds, glossy skin ♦ Hodur ♦ incandescent burner ♦ Parched ground, Pelean eruption ♦ WEBSTER ♦ Ysolde. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glowing": Favillous. (references) |
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Screenplays | I described you in terms which were positively glowing, which is exactly how I'd like to see you in Hell (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) I wouldn't put it in such glowing terms (Rabu Hina; writing credit: Kurou Hazuki) Now it's glowing. (3rd Rock from the Sun; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid) He is positively glowing. (3rd Rock from the Sun; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid) A glowing tribute, Mr. Kidd (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Lyrics | But a slow glowing dream ("Flashdance"; performing artist: Irene Cara) And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf) Life is glowing inside you and me (The Finer Things; performing artist: Steve Winwood) But I'm a little glowing friend (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Growing Glowing (2001) Glowing in the Dark (1996) | |
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 | The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751. Credit: NASA. |  | This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Here is the picture of Saturn taken by the Hubble telescope in ultraviolet light. The glowing, ... Credit: NASA. |  | Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have obtained the sharpest view yet of a glowing loop ... Credit: NASA. |
 | From ground-based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun-like stars in ... Credit: NASA. |  | Glowing gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue — as well as green and pink — illuminate the ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with ... Credit: NASA. |  | In this Hubble telescope picture, a curtain of glowing gas is wrapped around Jupiter's north ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years ... Credit: NASA. |  | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of a colorful cosmic ghost, the glowing ... Credit: NASA. |
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| "Glowing stairs" by Aytun Çelebi Commentary: "Glowing stairs from biennial, istanbul." | "Glowing Hands" by Elisabeth Howe Commentary: "Pretty self explanatory! :)." |
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James Jeffrey Roche | Comrade-love is as a welding blast of candid flame and ardent temperature: glowing more fervent, it doth bind more fast. |
Publilius Syrus | You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her pallor had become whiteness, and her cheeks were glowing. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Shame covered him wholly like fine glowing ashes falling continually |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He dragged the last smoke from his raveling cigarette and then, with callused thumb and forefinger, crushed out the glowing end. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left |
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Economic History | New Zealand | The entrances of U.S.-based retailers and franchises like McDonalds have received glowing reviews on the level of service. (references) |
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Dennis Miller | Selfishness is a topic that must be taken seriously if mankind is to cast off the animalistic legacy of his evolutionary past, and progress to a world in which our better angels are freed to share their glowing light with a peaceful world. |
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| "Glowing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.20% of the time. "Glowing" is used about 499 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64.2% | 321 | 16,086 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.4% | 172 | 23,722 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.6% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 499 | N/A |
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Expressions using "glowing": ad in glowing terms ♦ describe smth. in glowing colours ♦ fluorescent glowing ♦ give a glowing account of ♦ glowing account ♦ glowing avalanche ♦ glowing description ♦ glowing ember ♦ in glowing colours. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "glowing": glowing-coloured. | |
Ending with "glowing": less-than-glowing, soft-glowing, softly-glowing, white-glowing. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "glowing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me ngjyra të ndezura, i skuqur (erubescent, flush, fried, livid, red, red-hot), i përflakur (inflamed, lurid), i nxehtë (ardent, burning, earnest, fervent, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, scalding, torrid), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Arabic | محتدم (ardent, fervent), متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), متوهج (aglow, ardent, blazing, fervent, flamboyant, flame, flash, garish, incandescent, live, lurid, radiant), متوقد (ardent, keen, knowledgeable), وهاج (candescent, flaming, incandescent, shrill), تورد (bloom, blush, flush, mantle, sallowness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), нажежен (live, sulphurous), почервенял (red), пламнал (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, blazing), пламенен (ardent, ebullient, fervent, fiery, flaming, flamy, incandescent, passionate, red blooded, torrid, zealous), излъчващ светлина, излъчващ топлина. (various references) | |
Chinese | 发光 (Glowed, Radiance, Shined, shining, shiny, Shone). (various references) | |
Czech | přemrštìný (camp, exorbitant, extravagant, fancy, gushing, hysterical, immoderate, steep, stiff, unreasonable), nadšený (dedicated, enthusiastic, great, keen, passionate, rapturous, rousing, thrilled, wholehearted, zealous, zestful), řeřavý (burning), žhoucí, žhavý (ardent, baking, blistering, live, sultry, torrid). (various references) | |
Finnish | leimuava (burning, fiery, flaming), hehkuva (ardent, burning, fiery, live, red-hot). (various references) | |
French | rutilant (gleaming), rougeoyant, incandescence (glow), feu avec incandescence, embrasé, éclatant (glaring, glorious, glow-like). (various references) | |
German | glühend (aglow, ardent, blazing, blistering, broiling, burning, consuming, fervent, fiery, flaming, flushed, gloweringly, incandescent, live, red-hot, torrid, torridly), leuchtet (shines), erglühend. (various references) | |
Greek | πυρακτωμένος (incandescent), φεγγόβολος (radiant), φλογερόσ (aglow, ardent, fiery, flaming, inflammatory, lurid, passionate, red-hot), ενθουσιώδης (avid, exuberant, jubilant, rave), λαμπερόσ (bright, lucent, shiny), θερμός (Dewar flask, vaccum flask). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משולהב (ecstatic, excited, perfervid, rapturous), מבריק (brilliant, glossy, lustrous, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, vivid, whizz), יוקד (incandescent), לוהט (aglow, burning, fervid, fiery, flaming, heated, incandescent, torrid), זהרורי (radiant, reddish), זריחה (incandescence, luminosity, shining, sunrise, sunshine), התלהטות (incandescence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole), ragyogás (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, flame, glamor, glamour, glare, glitter, glossiness, irradiation, lucency, luster, lustre, Lustrum, magnificence, radiance, radiancy, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour), izzó (annealing, coruscating, flagrant, incandescent, smouldering, white hot). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sumirat (beam), pijar (blazing, incandescent, red-hot), bersemangat (courageous, go ahead). (various references) | |
Italian | risplendente (bright, resplendent), raggiante (radiant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 彩雲 (glowing clouds). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねつうん (glowing cloud), さいうん (glowing clouds), あかねさすそら (glowing sky). (various references) | |
Korean | 빛을냄. (various references) | |
Manx | soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, lit up, luminous, lustrous, radiant, shiny, splendid, vivid), smarageagh (red-hot), lonragh (bright, efflugent, glistening), jiarg (abandoned, bloodshot, burning, fair, fair intensive, florid, gules, live, red, rouge, ruddy, sanguine, stark, turned, turned as land). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owingglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rubro (blushing, coral, judas-colored, judas-coloured, red, white-hot), incandescente (igneous, incandescent), em brasa (afire, live), brilhante (ablaze, agleam, bright, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glaring, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, lustrous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid). (various references) | |
Romanian | viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), pasionat (ardent, avid, eager, enthusiast, flaming, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, maniac, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm), luminos (bright, brilliant, candent, cheerful, clear, glorious, happy, light, lightsome, living, lucent, lucid, luminous, serene), incandescent (candent, incandescent, luminous, red-hot, white hot), bãtãtor (batler, batlet, beater, club, evident, gaudy, glaring, picker, striking), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), aburit (boozy, covered with steam, flushing, misty, Reeky, smoky), înflãcãrat (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fiery, flaming, hot, hot-blooded, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, tropical, warm blooded), îmbujorat (ablush, blushing, hectic, rosy). (various references) | |
Russian | ярко светящийся, яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, shiny, showy, sinewy, sunbright, vivid, zippy), раскаленный добела (candescent, white hot, whitehot, white-hot), горячий (ardent, boiling hot, burning, earnest, fervent, fervid, fiery, full of beans, heady, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, red-hot, vehement, warm blooded), накаленный (incandescent), накаливание (heating, incandescence). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zažarenost, vatrenost (fervency, fervor, fervour, irish, passion), vatren (ardent, burning, fiery, gushing, hot-blooded, igneous, peppery, perfervid, red-hot, spirited, spunky, torrid), usijan (candent, candescent, incandescent, red-hot), užaren (incandescent), žustar (agile, brisk, dashing, hot, lively, pert, smart, snappy, spry, spunky). (various references) | |
Spanish | vivo como la vida (mercurial, on the hoof, racy), resplandeciente (flaring, radiant, resplendent), incandescente (incandescent), incandescencia (glow, incandescence), entusiasta (addict, buff, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fan, fiend, keen, nut, warm, zealous, zestful), encendido (ablaze, afire, aglow, alight, fired, flaming, flaring, ignition, lighted, lighting, live, on, switching on, turn on), candente (blistering, live, red-hot, sizzling), brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling), ardiente (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent, boiling hot, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, gloweringly, hot, incandescent, lurid, passionate, perfervid, scorching, warm). (various references) | |
Swedish | glödhet (red-hot, white hot), glödande (aglow, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, incandescent, live, perfervid, white hot), lysande (bright, brilliant, glorious, illustrious, lambent, lucid, luminous, pageant, shining, vibrant), entusiastisk (avid, enthusiastic, keen, rave, warm). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), hararetli (aboil, aglow, burning, dithyrambic, excited, fervent, fevered, heated, in a glow, perfervid, roaring, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, warm), coşkulu (cock-a-hoop, declamatory, dithyrambic, effusive, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, gut, in a glow, rapturous, stirring, sweeping, transported with joy, vehement), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розжарений до червоного, палаючий (ablaze, aflame, ardent, burning, fervid, flagrant, flaming, lurid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sặc sỡ nhiệt tình, rực sáng hồng hào đỏ ửng rực rỡ. (various references) | |
Welsh | eirias (burning, fiery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | candens, fervens, fervidus, micans. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | frâkereñtat, frâshmish. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glowing": glowingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glowing": outglowing, reglowing. (additional references) | |
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"Glowing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glogwyn, gloin, gloming, glooping, glowming, gnowing, golowan, Gowin, gowing, Gowling, Guoqiang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glowing" (pronounced glō"ing) |
| 4 | -l ō" i ng | blowing, flowing, lowing, slowing. |
| 3 | -ō" i ng | bestowing, bowing, crowing, easygoing, foregoing, forgoing, going, growing, hoeing, knowing, owing, plateauing, rowing, sewing, showing, snowing, sowing, throwing, toeing, towing, undergoing, unknowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-l-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: lowing, ogling. | |
-2 letters: going, lingo, owing. | |
-3 letters: glow, gong, gown, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lown, nogg, noil, wing, wino. | |
-4 letters: gig, gin, ion, lin, log, low, nil, nog, now, oil, owl, own, wig, win, wog, won. | |
-5 letters: go, in, li, lo, no, on, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-l-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: growling. | |
+2 letters: glowering, glowingly, growingly, nightglow, reglowing. | |
+3 letters: growlingly, nightglows, outglowing. | |
+5 letters: glassblowing, waterlogging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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