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glow
[gloh] 
–noun
| 1. | a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence. |
| 2. | brightness of color. |
| 3. | a sensation or state of bodily heat. |
| 4. | a warm, ruddy color of the cheeks. |
| 5. | warmth of emotion or passion; ardor. |
–verb (used without object)
| 6. | to emit bright light and heat without flame; become incandescent. |
| 7. | to shine like something intensely heated. |
| 8. | to exhibit a strong, bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant. |
| 9. | (of the cheeks) to exhibit a healthy, warm, ruddy color. |
| 10. | to become or feel very warm or hot. |
| 11. | to show emotion or elation: to glow with pride. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME glowen (v.), OE glōwan; akin to G glühen, ON glōa
bef. 1000; ME glowen (v.), OE glōwan; akin to G glühen, ON glōa
Synonyms:
9. flush, blush, redden.
9. flush, blush, redden.
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| glow (glō) intr.v. glowed, glow·ing, glows
[Middle English glouen, from Old English glōwan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
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Glow
Glow\ (gl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowed (gl[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Glowing.] [AS. gl[=o]wan; akin to D. gloeijen, OHG. gluoen, G. gl["u]hen, Icel. gl[=o]a, Dan. gloende glowing. [root]94. Cf. Gloom.]1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. --Pope. 2. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc. Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. --Dryden. And glow with shame of your proceedings. --Shak. 3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats? --Addison. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. --Gay. 4. To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. --Dryden. Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. --Pope.Glow
Glow\, v. t. To make hot; to flush. [Poetic] Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. --Shak.Glow
Glow\, n. 1. White or red heat; incandscence. 2. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks. 3. Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor. The red glow of scorn. --Shak. 4. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
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Language Translation for : glow
Spanish:
brillar, resplandecer, estar al rojo vivo,
German:
glühen,
Japanese:
熱して輝く
glow
O.E. glowan "to shine as if red-hot," from P.Gmc. base *glo- (cf. O.S. gloian, O.N. gloa, O.H.G. gluoen, Ger. glühen "to glow"), from PIE *ghlo-. First record of glow-worm is from c.1320.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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GLOW language
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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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| GLOW gross lift-off weight |
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