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Glow

Definition: Glow

Glow

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Glow

DomainDefinition

Computing

GLOW A POP-11 variant with lexical scope. Available from Andrew Arnblaster, Bollostraat 6, B-3140 Keerbergen, Belgium, for Mac or MS-DOS. [Byte's UK edition, May 1992, p.84UK-8]. (1997-02-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Glow

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Glow

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Glow

English words defined with "glow": afterglow, After-glow, atomic number 10blink, bright, burnishedduskyflash, full-bloodedglow lamp, glow tube, Glowedheartyincandescelurid, lustrous, lustyNe, neonphosphorescent, planetary nebulared-blooded, rosaceous, rose, roseate, Rutilantself-satisfied, shining, shiny, smugtwilight, twilit, twinklewink, winkle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "glow": Artic whiteoutBONE PICKERCapacitively Coupled Discharge Plasma, carbon dioxide laser, cathode ray tube, CO2 laserDiffuse aurora, direct-current dischargeFaraday dark space, formative timegaseous electronics, glow dischargeHEAT READERlaser chickenmethanephone, milky weatherpolymer film, purple glow, purple lightSAMPLER, FIRST. (references)
Etymologies containing "glow": topaz. (references)

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Modern Usage: Glow

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Glow

DomainTitle

References

  • Glow Communications Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Ultimate Sticker Book: Dinosaur -- Glow in the Dark (Ultimate Sticker Books) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  • Mad Catz Advanced Control Pad with Hand Grips: Glow in the Dark (reference)

  • N64 Advanced Control Pad - Glow (reference)

  • Canon Glow View Technology 14 Digit, 2 Color Heavy Duty Printing Calculator (reference)

  • Glow Keys Universal Remote (reference)

  • Philips 3-Device Remote With Advanced DVD Functions And Glow Keys (PM335) (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Glow

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Photo Album: Glow

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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).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Glow
 

"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."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Glow".

PlayCaption
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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Glow

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Glow

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Glow

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Glow

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Glow

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Glow

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963The 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Glow

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88%8208,533
Lexical Verb (infinitive)8.79%8236,594
Lexical Verb (base form)3.22%3063,341
                    Total100.00%932N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Glow

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GlowLast name10084,534
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Glow

CountryName
United Kingdom

Glow Communications Plc

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Glow

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glow

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Glow

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 

  

(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 

  

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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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Glow

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

uru. (various references)

Latin500 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)

Avestan200-600

hvar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Glow

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Glow"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "glow" (pronounced glō")
3g 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.

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Anagrams: Glow

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Frequency
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Expressions
20. Expressions: Internet
21. Translations: Modern
22. Translations: Ancient
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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