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Beaming vs Sparkling - What's the difference?

beaming | sparkling |

As adjectives the difference between beaming and sparkling

is that beaming is smilingly happy; showing happy emotion while sparkling is of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.

As verbs the difference between beaming and sparkling

is that beaming is while sparkling is .

As nouns the difference between beaming and sparkling

is that beaming is the act of someone or something that beams while sparkling is act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.

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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    sparkling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.
  • Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
  • Brilliant and vivacious.
  • * '>citation

    • Synonyms

    * glistening, twinkling * (of a beverage) fizzy, carbonated

    Antonyms

    * (of a beverage) noncarbonated, still

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
  • * Nathaniel John Hollingsworth
    • Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.
  • A sparkling wine.
  • * 2011 , Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)
    • Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.