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Beaming vs Radiant - What's the difference?

beaming | radiant |

As adjectives the difference between beaming and radiant

is that beaming is smilingly happy; showing happy emotion while radiant is radiating light and/or heat.

As nouns the difference between beaming and radiant

is that beaming is the act of someone or something that beams while radiant is a point source from which radiation is emitted.

As a verb beaming

is present participle of lang=en.

beaming

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
  • * c.1846-1848 , ,
  • The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming' and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more ' beaming and more happy, every day.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that beams.
  • * 1826 , Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt
  • The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things

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    radiant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Radiating light and/or heat.
  • :
  • Emitted as radiation.
  • Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
  • :
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  • *:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?!  You?!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
  • Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  • (lb) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
  • :
  • (lb) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  • (astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  • A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
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