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Definitions: Scintillating |
ScintillatingAdjective1. Brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue". 2. Marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders". 3. 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 "scintillating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ScintillatingSynonyms: aglitter(p) (adj), bubbling (adj), effervescent (adj), fulgid (adj), glinting (adj), glistering (adj), glittering (adj), glittery (adj), scintillant (adj), sparkling (adj), sparkling(a) (adj), sparkly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scintillating |
| English words defined with "scintillating": aglitter ♦ fulgid ♦ glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery ♦ scintillant, scintillate, sparkle, sparkling, sparkly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scintillating": Association of European Astronauts, aventurescence ♦ scintillating counter, scintillating material. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scintillating": scintillate. (references) |
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Screenplays | I need you to pretend we are having scintillating conversation. (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil) | |
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| "Scintillating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 63.33% of the time. "Scintillating" is used about 30 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 63.33% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 36.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scintillating": scintillating light ♦ scintillating material. 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 |
scintillating scotoma | 14 |
scintillating | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "scintillating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发出火花 (scintillate, Scintillated, scintillation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | scintillator (scintillating material), hurtigblink (quick flashing light, scintillating light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | scintillerend materiaal (scintillating material), flikkerlicht (occulting light, quick flashing light, scintillating light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuikeaine (scintillating material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scotome scintillant (scintillating scotoma), matériau scintillant (scintillating material), feu scintillant continu (scintillating light), feu scintillant (scintillating light), détecteur SOFI (scintillating optical fiber imager), aura scintillante (scintillating aura). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | funkelnd (blazing, coruscating, gemmy, gleaming, glittering, sparkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπινθηροβόλοσ (sparkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lampante (evident, glaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 警抜 (extraordinarily excellent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | けいばつ (clan, extraordinarily excellent, judgement, penalty, punishment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 번"임. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | intillatingscay material cintilante (scintillating material), luz cintilante continua (quick flashing light, scintillating light), luz cintilante (quick flashing light, scintillating light). (various references) scãpãrãtor (gleaming, gleamy, sparkling). (various references) живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy), искриться мерцающий, интересный (good looking, interesting, nutty, riveting, sapid). (various references) titilante (aglimmer, scintillant, twinkling), chispeante (coruscating, racy, scintillant, sparkling), centelleante (agleam, aglimmer, lambent, scintillant, sparkling, twinkling), brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling). (various references) scintillator (scintillating material). (various references) มีชีวิตชีวา (effervesce, kickin', sprightly, swinging). (various references) іскристий (bubbly, effervescent, scintillant, sparkling). (various references) nhấp nháy (winking), lấp lánh (coruscant, sparkling, winking), lóng lánh (splendent, twinkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Scintillating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cintillating, sintillating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-i-l-l-n-n-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: scintillant. | |
-3 letters: installing, instilling. | |
-4 letters: anticling, incitants, instating, intitling, laicising, latticing, litigants, nictating, scantling, scintilla. | |
-5 letters: allicins, callings, castling, catlings, incasing, incising, incitant, inciting, initials, inlacing, insignia, instinct, isatinic, liaising, lignitic, litigant, sainting, scanting, scatting, slanting, slatting, slitting, snailing, staining, stalling, stilling, stilting, stinting, tailings, tainting, tincting, tintings. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 69 6E 74 69 6C 6C 61 74 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c i n t i l l a t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0069 006E 0074 0069 006C 006C 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53697580867578786786758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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