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Definition: Scintillant |
ScintillantAdjective1. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scintillant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Scintillant \Scin"til*lant\, adjective. [Latin expression scintillans, present participle of scintillare to sparkle. See Scintillate.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Scintillant" is a common misspelling or typo for: scintilla, scintillate, scintillated. |
Synonyms: ScintillantSynonyms: aglitter(p) (adj), fulgid (adj), glinting (adj), glistering (adj), glittering (adj), glittery (adj), scintillating (adj), sparkling(a) (adj), sparkly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scintillant |
| English words defined with "scintillant": Scintillous, Scintillously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scintillant": liquid scintillation counting. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Scintillant" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (glimmering, glistening, glittering, irradiant). |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scintillant | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scintillant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | мерцающий (shimmery). (various references) | |
Spanish | titilante (aglimmer, scintillating, twinkling), chispeante (coruscating, racy, scintillating, sparkling), centelleante (agleam, aglimmer, lambent, scintillating, sparkling, twinkling), brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling). (various references) | |
Turkish | parıldayan (aglimmer), kıvılcımlı, ışıldayan (aglimmer, beamy, luminescent, shining). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Ñ–ÑкриÑтий (bubbly, effervescent, scintillating, sparkling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scintillant": scintillantly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scintillant" (pronounced 'Scin"til*lant'): Altivolant, Ambulant, Circumflant, Circumvolant, Coagulant, Congratulant, Conjubilant, Contemplant, Contrastimulant, Deplant, Disgallant, Displant, Eggplant, Engallant, flagellant, Flax-plant, Fore-topgallant, implant, Interosculant, Interpellant, jubilant, Nidulant, Nonchalant, Osculant, Petulant, Ponvolant, Postulant, Pustulant, Reimplant, replant, Resemblant, Retrocopulant, sibilant, Superplant, supplant, transplant, Triumplant, Ululant, Underplant, Undulant, vacillant, Velivolant, Vigilant, Volant, Wind-plant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-l-n-n-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: incitants, scintilla. | |
-3 letters: allicins, incitant, instinct. | |
-4 letters: allicin, anilins, catlins, incants, incisal, install, instant, instill, italics, lattins, niacins, salicin, stannic, tincals, titanic, titians. | |
-5 letters: actins, anilin, anisic, antics, attics, casini, catlin, clinal, incant, instal, instil, intact, isatin, italic, lattin, lilacs, linacs, linins, nastic, niacin, scilla, sialic, silica, static, taints, tallis, tallit, tanist, tannic, ticals, tincal, tincts, titans, titian. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-l-n-n-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: cantillations, instinctually, scintillantly, scintillating, scintillation. | |
+3 letters: scintillations. | |
+4 letters: anticolonialist. | |
+5 letters: antagonistically, anticolonialists, constitutionally, intercrystalline, nullificationist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 69 6E 74 69 6C 6C 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .. -. - .. .-.. .-.. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c i n t i l l a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0069 006E 0074 0069 006C 006C 0061 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369758086757878678086 |
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