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Definition: Glow |
GlowNoun1. An alert and refreshed state. 2. Light from nonthermal sources. 3. The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised. 4. A feeling of considerable warmth; "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret". 5. The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface. 6. An appearance of reflected light. Verb1. Emit a steady even light without flames; "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden". 2. Esp. of the complexion: show a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna". 3. Shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning". 4. Be exuberant or high-spirited; "Make the people's hearts glow". 5. Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Computing | GLOW |
Mining | A. The incandescence of a heated substance, or the light from such a substance; white or red heat. (references) |
Public Administration | The quality or state of being rendered luminous due to intense heat. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: GlowSynonyms: freshness (n), gleam (n), gleaming (n), glowing (n), incandescence (n), lambency (n), luminescence (n), radiance (n), beam (v), burn (v), radiate (v), shine (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart; (disposition); passion; (state of excitability); ecstasy; (pleasure). |
Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath. | |
Heat | Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant. |
Noun: heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic. | |
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 | Noun: vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness; Adjective: intellectual, force; spirit, point, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glow |
| English words defined with "glow": afterglow, After-glow, atomic number 10 ♦ blink, bright, burnished ♦ dusky ♦ flash, full-blooded ♦ glow lamp, glow tube, Glowed ♦ hearty ♦ incandesce ♦ lurid, lustrous, lusty ♦ Ne, neon ♦ phosphorescent, planetary nebula ♦ red-blooded, rosaceous, rose, roseate, Rutilant ♦ self-satisfied, shining, shiny, smug ♦ twilight, twilit, twinkle ♦ wink, winkle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glow": Artic whiteout ♦ BONE PICKER ♦ Capacitively Coupled Discharge Plasma, carbon dioxide laser, cathode ray tube, CO2 laser ♦ Diffuse aurora, direct-current discharge ♦ Faraday dark space, formative time ♦ gaseous electronics, glow discharge ♦ HEAT READER ♦ laser chicken ♦ methanephone, milky weather ♦ polymer film, purple glow, purple light ♦ SAMPLER, FIRST. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glow": topaz. (references) |
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Screenplays | Only one thing in the world could've dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, and Jean Shepherd.) A lifetime of working with nuclear power has left me with a healthy green glow and left me as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) It was as if there was a sort of glow all around you (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Oh, come on. Am I supposed to remain celibate while I bask in like the warm glow of your annihilating contempt (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman) Now, well it's still kind of dim our there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Lyrics | Stay here don't put out the glow (Shape Of My Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) Watching the candle flicker out in the evening glow (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak) Oh a moment still worth was a glow, all the bells rang out (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M) You can see the glow slowly fading from her eyes (Pass You By; performing artist: Boyz II Men) You know she wiggles like a glow worm, (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Off We Glow (1952) Joe Glow the Firefly (1941) The Glow Worm (1930) Glow (2000) The Hard Blue Glow (1999) | |
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Shown is the exterior of the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) taken from the west. On some shots has the glow from the sunset on the tower of the hospital. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). | Two technicians in lab coats are examining plates and tissue culture flasks at a laminar flow hood. The lighting has a soft amber glow. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
The L. pneumophila bacteria are tagged with a monoclonal antibody treated with a fluorescein dye. After binding to the bacteria the slide is viewed under UV light, and the bacterial cell walls glow green. Credit: CDC. | The Legionella pneumophila bacteria are tagged with a monoclonal antibody treated with a fluorescein dye. After binding to the bacteria the slide is viewed under UV light, and the bacterial cell walls glow green. Credit: CDC. | ||
Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across ... Credit: NASA. | Clusters of stars and a fishhook-shaped cloud of luminescent gases glow brilliantly in NGC ... Credit: NASA. | ||
![]() | A pinkish glow suffusing a Southeast Alaska sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Shadow bands in the pinkish glow of a Southeast Alaska sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | A late afternoon golden glow as seen from C130 research aircraft. Credit: Flying With NOAA. | ![]() | Lobate ctenophores are translucent and give off a bioluminescent glow. Bolinopsis infundibulum. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Glow" by Windy Jones Commentary: "Lamp against a wall." | "Peking glow" by Kevin Walsh Commentary: "Peking Man, an early human fossil skull. Got the light setting wrong on my FinePix - only manipulation was to up the contrast." |
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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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Homer | Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. |
John Mason Brown | Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. |
Thomas Jefferson | The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961 | The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Her heart was in a glow, and she feared her face might be as hot. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The child turned his back to the sun, which made his hair like threads of gold, and flushed the savage face of Jean Valjean with a lurid glow. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | She was dancing towards him and, as she came, her eyes were a little averted and a faint glow was on her cheek |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The glow of light was nearly over the hill |
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Health | Dixon, C. M., & Lepor, H. (1993). Lasers add a glow to the search for BPH therapies. (references) | |
The specific antibodies are labeled with a compound that makes them glow an apple-green color when observed microscopically under ultraviolet light. (references) | ||
Business | Starter batteries are increasingly maintenance-free, brake friction materials are more durable and application-specific than before, and tires and exhaust parts are showing considerable improvements in life spans (as are shock absorbers, spark plugs and glow plugs). (references) | |
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Dennis Miller | Now women too can experience the blue-grey glow of fluorescent lighting, the warm, pungent stench of burned coffee, the soul-numbing Sisyphean routine of completing a week's work, getting a week's pay, then doing it all over again Monday morning. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. |
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| "Glow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.00% of the time. "Glow" is used about 932 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) | 88% | 820 | 8,533 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.79% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.22% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Total | 100.00% | 932 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "glow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Glow | Last name | 100 | 84,534 |
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| United Kingdom | Glow Communications Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "glow": anode glow ♦ electric glow ♦ glow lamp ♦ glow of the fire ♦ glow tube ♦ glow with health ♦ glow worm ♦ golden glow ♦ in a glow ♦ positive glow ♦ purple glow. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "glow": glow-globe, glow-globes, Glow-in-the-dark, glow-like, glow-plug, glow-plugs, glow-strips, glow-worm, glow-worms. | |
Ending with "glow": After-glow, a-glow, day-glow, fire-glow, gold-glow, half-glow, ice-glow, moon-glow, red-glow, Ultra-glow, womb-glow. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
glow stick | 1,127 | glow paint | 42 |
glow | 504 | glow intimate | 41 |
street glow | 473 | glow heat n | 35 |
glow necklace | 336 | glow gauge | 32 |
glow in the dark | 299 | glow in the dark condom | 30 |
orange glow | 137 | mini glow stick | 28 |
voodoo glow skull | 133 | cheap glow stick | 28 |
glow in the dark paint | 131 | club glow | 28 |
wholesale glow stick | 118 | by glow jlo | 28 |
glow product | 116 | glow wire | 27 |
glow plug | 86 | glow magazine | 26 |
glow graphic red | 86 | glow in the dark product | 25 |
glow wrestling | 75 | glow in the dark paintball | 25 |
glow bracelet | 72 | glow by j lo | 25 |
glow light | 63 | glow lyrics skull voodoo | 24 |
glow in the dark star | 60 | glow switch | 23 |
lite glow | 55 | glow in the dark golf ball | 22 |
glow worm | 52 | j lo glow | 22 |
glow in the dark necklace | 50 | glow necklace wholesale | 22 |
glow jewelry | 47 | glow pen | 22 |
heat and glow | 22 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "glow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zjarrmi (Ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fever, fire, heat, temperature), skuqje (color, colour, flush, incandescence, reddening, redness), skuqem (become flushed, become red, blush, color, colour, crimson, get red in the face), shkëlqim (aureola, aureole, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, distinction, eclat, effulgence, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flame, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, 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, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, glory, light, polish, scintillate, shed, shine), përvëloj (burn, scald), ngrohtësi (Ardor, ardour, cordiality, fervor, fervour, geniality, heat, thaw, warmth), ndriçim (illumination, irradiation, lighting, lightness, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, shed, shine, treatment), hov (Ardor, ardour, burst, dash, elan, hop, hunch, jerk, run up, spasm), flakërim (flame, flare, flare up, flash), digjem (burn, burn out, die, grow warmer, hanker, pine, scorch). (various references) | |
Arabic | نور (clear, day, edify, enlighten, flare, gleam, illuminate, illumination), وهج (blaze, flame, glare, heat), حماسة (abandonment, ardor, ardour, eagerness, ebullience, elan, enthusiasm, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, heartiness, impetus, intense interest, keenness, mettle, rage, responsiveness, warmth, zeal), حرارة (cordiality, fever, geniality, heat, temperature, warmth), توهج (blaze, fervency, fervor, fervour, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flare, flush, glitter, incandesce, radiance), إحتدام (crackle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яркост (brightness, flamboyance, harshness, intensity, jazz, luminance, obviousness, refulgence, vigor, vigour, vividness), сгорещеност, светя (burn, glisten, hallow, irradiate, lamp, light, shine), светлина (lamp, light, shine), руменина (blush, color, colour, flush, high color, redness, suffusion), топлина (caloric, heat, sunshine, warm, warmth), грея, горя (burn, flame), нажеженост (incandescence), жарава, жар (ardour, embers, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, ginger, gusto, heat, incandescence, mustard, vehemence, violence, warmth, zest), блестя (blaze, coruscate, dazzle, glance, gleam, glitter, irradiate, scintillate, shine, shine out, sparkle, twinkle), пламтя (blaze, burn, flame), излъчвам светлина (effuse, pour), излъчвам топлина. (various references) | |
Chinese | 煒 (raging fire), 熾熱 , 焕发. (various references) | |
Czech | svit (shine), svítit (burn, radiate, shine), rumìnec (blush, flush, vermeil), rudì zářit, planout (blaze, flame out), hořet (be ablaze, be on fire, burn), žhnout, žáre, žár (blaze, candescence, fervency, heat, inflammation). (various references) | |
Danish | ild (fire, heat, passion). (various references) | |
Dutch | in gloed staan (glow with heat), gloeien (glow with heat), gloed (heat, passion, verve, vivacity), blaken (glow with heat). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ardo (heat, passion), ardi (glow with heat). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gløðandi hiti (heat, passion), gløða (glow with heat). (various references) | |
Farsi | محبت (Amour, Love), مشتعل بودن , نگاه سوزان کردن , قرمزشدن (Redden), گرمی (Ardor, Heat, Mettle, Rut, Stew, Warmth, Zeal, Zing), تابیدن (Glint, Radiate, Shine, Stoke, Sun, Twist), تابش (Brilliance, Flame, Glint, Glitter, Sheen, Shine), تاب امدن , تاب (Patience, Sway, Swing, Twist), درتب وتاب بودن , برافروختن (Inflame, Kindle, Overheat, Provoke, Relume), برافروختگی (Provacation). (various references) | |
Finnish | hehkua (be red-hot, glow with heat). (various references) | |
French | incandescence (glowing), ardeur. (various references) | |
Frisian | gleonje (glow with heat). (various references) | |
German | glühen (aglow, be aglow, glow with heat, incandescence, to glow), glut (Ardor, ardour, blaze, burning ash, embers, fervency, fervor, fervour, flush, heat, incandescence, passion, redness), erglühen (burn, incandescence), brennen (bake, be alight, be on, be on fire, be sore, be sparked off, blaze, brand, burn, burned, burnt, catch, cauterization, distill, fire, firing, glow with heat, hurt, kindle, prick, scorch, sear, sere, smart, sting, tingle, to be on fire, to burn). (various references) | |
Greek | λάμψη (brightness, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, flare, flash, glare, glint, glisten, glitter, limelight, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, shine, shininess, shining, splendor, splendour, twinkle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללהוט (blaze, fervor, flame, kindle), לחור (be hot, burn), לזרוח (bloom, dawn, radiate, rise, shine), להט (ardour, blaze, fervency, fervor, flame, heat, incandescence, verve, zeal), לדלוק (burn), לבהוק (gleam, glitter, shine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | parázslás (smouldering), izzás (flagrancy, ignition). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sinar (beam, light, radiance, ray), memarak (flare up), marak (luster), kecemerlangan (brilliance, glory, luster). (various references) | |
Italian | ardore (Ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, heat, hotness, mettle, passion, zeal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 臭う (to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to smell, to stink), 蛍の光 (Auld Lang Syne, firefly glow), 照り映える (to glow, to shine), 火照り (a glow, heat), 匂う (to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to smell, to stink), 底光り (deep gloss or luster, inner glow or light), 朝霞 (morning glow, morning mist), 朝焼け (morning glow, sunrise colors), 悦に入る (to be pleased, to gloat, to glow with self-satisfaction), 川明り (glow of river in darkness), 夕映え (sunset glow, to look attractive, to shine), 夕映え (sunset glow), グロー放電 (cage, cake, case, case by case, case method, case study, casework, caseworker, chaos, chassis ground, frame ground, gloria, glossary, glow discharge, groggy, grotesque, knock-out, KO), グレゴリオ暦 (glen check, global, global market, global powers, global village, global war, globalism, globalist, globe, Gloria, glove, glove box, glove compartment, glow lamp, glow starter, Gregorian calendar, gremlin, grenade, grotesque). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そこびかり (deep gloss or luster, inner glow or light), ほたるのひかり (Auld Lang Syne, firefly glow), ほてり (a glow, heat), におう (the two guardian Deva kings, to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to smell, to stink), かわあかり (glow of river in darkness), あさやけ (morning glow, sunrise colors), ゆうばえ (sunset glow), グローランプ (glow lamp), グローほうでん (glow discharge), グロースターター (glow starter), てりはえる (to glow, to shine), ちょうか (a catch, a hooked fish, being more than, dirge, elegy, excess, house in the middle of a town, leather boots, long boots, long epic song with shamisen accompaniment, merchant's family, morning glow, morning mist, the imperial family or household, type of waka), えつにいる (to be pleased, to gloat, to glow with self-satisfaction). (various references) | |
Korean | 놀. (various references) | |
Manx | soilshean (beaming, blaze, blaze of sun, illuminant, shine), lonraghey (brighten, glisten), jirgid (blush, redness, ruddiness), jiargaghey (blush, flush, redden), bree (animation, drift, effect, energy, essence, exhalation, gist, implication, importance, initiative, interpretation, inwardness, power, significance, stamina, validity, vigour, virtue). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incandescência (candescence), ardor (ardor, ardour, caloric, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, heat, lust, mettle, mettlesomeness, passion, tingle, vehemence, warmth, zeal), arder (burn, deflagrate, fire, flame, flush, glisten, glitter, glow with heat, inflame, kindle, sting, tingle). (various references) | |
Romanian | luminã (culture, glare, glim, illumination, light, lighting, lightness, lucidity, luminous energy, opening, perspective, side light, span, twinkle), înflãcãrare (ardour, enthusiasm, fervour, fire, inflammation, pathos, rampancy), arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot), cãldurã mare, dogori (burn, redden, ripen, scorch), fi incandescent, foc (affliction, Ardor, ardour, arson, blaze, bonfire, brunt, conflagration, discharge, fire, firing, grief, heat, ingle, jib, light, round, shot, spirit), încinge (begin, engirt, enlace, gird, girdle, orb, parboil, seize, zone), jar (fervour, fire, heat), vãpaie (fire, flame), pasiune (Ardor, ardour, avidity, avocation, fervour, fire, flame, hobby, interest, itch, love, passion, pathos), radia (beam, kindle, radiate, Ray, strike out), roşeaţã (color, colour, pinkness, redness), se îmbujora (flush), se aprinde (catch, fire, ignite, inflame, kindle, light), strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fineness, fire, flame, flash, flashing, flush, gaiety, glitter, gloss, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), incandescenţã (incandescence). (various references) | |
Russian | яркость красок, светиться свечение;разряд, свет (light, shine, world), сильный жар, румянец (bloom, blush, flush, high color, high colour, roses, ruddiness, suffusion), гореть (blaze, burn), накаляться докрасна, зарево, жар (broil, fervour, fever, fire, heat), блистать (coruscate, shine), пылать (ablaze, blaze, flame), пыл (ardor, ardors, ardour, eagerness, elan, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, metal, mettle, spunk, verve). (various references) | |
Scottish | sionnachan. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usijanje (candescence, red-hot), užariti (heat), sjaj (blazon, blazonry, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, effulgence, gloss, luminosity, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), sijati (beam, gleam, glitter, shine), plamteti (blaze, flame), žar (ardor, ardour, embers, live coals, zeal). (various references) | |
Spanish | resplandecer (bloom, glitter, shine), incandescencia (incandescence). (various references) | |
Swedish | glöda (be aglow, be red-hot, glow with heat), glöd (Ardor, ardour, embers, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, heat, inflammation, live coal, passion). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanmak (be hot, broil, burn, burn out, fire, fuse, fuze, go on, inflame, kindle, light, light up, scorch, smart, sting, swelter, take, tan, toast), parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parıltı (blink, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), korlaşmak, kızgınlık (anger, choler, crossness, fervor, fervour, furor, furore, fury, gall, heat, huffiness, ill blood, indignation, ire, irritation, must, rut, wax), kızarmak (be fried, be roasted, be toasted, blush, Brown, color, color up, colour, colour up, crimson, flame, go red, redden, toast, turn red), kızarma (blushing, flush, suffusion, turning red), kızıllaşmak (go red, redden, turn red), kıpkırmızı olmak (crimson, flame, flush scarlet, turn scarlet), ihtiras (ambition, desire, mammon, pash, passion), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), hırs (ambition, anger, avidity, cupidity, desire, fire, forwardness, greed, greediness, mammon, mettle, passion, rage, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity), coşmak (boil up, bubble over, effervesce, enthuse, gush, let oneself go, overflow, slop over), coşku (ebullition, ecstasy, effervescence, elation, enthusiasm, excitement, exuberance, exuberancy, furor, furore, gush, rave, rhapsody, spring tide, temperament, yeast), şevk (animation, ardour, desire, eagerness, elan, enthusiasm, fervency, fervor, fervour, mettle, spirit, spiritedness, verve). (various references) | |
Turkmen | labyrdamak (blaze, flare up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схвильованість (emotionality), світло (light, shine), світитися (gleam, lighten, phosphoresce, stream), сильний жар, рум'янець (bloom, color, colour, flush, ruddiness), розжарюватися (heat, incandesce), відблиск (afterglow, blink, glisten, reflection, reflexion). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nước da hồng hào, lớp sáng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | uru. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adarsa, ardeam, ardebat, ardebit, ardens, ardente, ardentem, ardentes, ardenti, ardentis, ardentium, ardere, arderent, arderet, ardet, arsa, arserit, calere, calore, calorem, candacis, candens, candeo, candor, candorem, exardebit, exardescent, exardesceret, exardescet, exardescit, exarserit, exarserunt, exarsisti, exarsit, ferveo, flagrare, fulgeat, fulgebat, fulgebis, fulgebunt, fulgens, fulgentis, fulgere, fulgeret, fulget, fulserint, incalesco, niteo, nitor, subluceo. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | hvar. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glow": glowed, glower, glowered, glowering, glowers, glowflies, glowfly, glowing, glowingly, glows, glowworm, glowworms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glow": afterglow, aglow, airglow, alpenglow, dayglow, nightglow, outglow, reglow, sunglow. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glow": afterglows, airglows, alpenglows, dayglows, nightglows, outglowed, outglowing, outglows, reglowed, reglowing, reglows, sunglows. (additional references) | |
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"Glow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elow, galow, Gbowo, Giljod, glaw, glio, glo, gloc, glok, glon, gloo, gloop, glooz, glop, Glor, glot, glowe, glown, glowy, glox, gloy, Glro, Glso, gluc, gluv, glw, gol, golowan, golwg, gouw, gow, gpo, llow, Ulowi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glow" (pronounced glō") |
| 3 | g l ō" | aglow. |
| 2 | -l ō" | below, blow, floe, flow, hello, lo, low, Lowe, overflow, plough, rouleau, sloe, slow, tableau, tableaux. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-o-w" | |
-1 letter: log, low, owl, wog. | |
-2 letters: go, lo, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-o-w" | |
+1 letter: aglow, glows, growl. | |
+2 letters: bowleg, glowed, glower, growls, growly, logway, lowing, reglow, sawlog. | |
+3 letters: airglow, blowgun, blowing, bowlegs, bowling, cowgirl, cowling, dayglow, flowage, flowing, fowling, gallows, glowers, glowfly, glowing, growled, growler, howling, legwork, logways, logwood, longbow, lowings, lugworm, outglow, plowing, reglows, sawlogs, slowing, sunglow, wolfing, wrongly, yowling. | |
+4 letters: agalwood, airglows, allowing, blowguns, boweling, bowingly, bowlings, bungalow, clowning, cogwheel, cowgirls, cowlings, dayglows, doweling, elbowing, flowages, fowlings, gangplow, glowered, glowworm, goalward, golliwog, gollywog, goodwill, gromwell, growable, growlers, growlier, growling, legworks, lobbygow, logwoods, longbows, longways, longwise, lowering, lowlight, lugworms, lungworm, lungwort, outglows, polliwog, pollywog, prowling, reglowed, roweling, scowling, showgirl, sunglows, toweling, waterlog, weeklong, wobbling, wooingly, wrongful. | |
| 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. | |
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