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Glint vs Grim - What's the difference?

glint | grim |

As a noun glint

is a short flash of light.

As a verb glint

is to flash briefly.

As a proper noun grim is

, probably derived from old english grimm' or old norse '''grimr''' or ' grimmr .

glint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short flash of light.
    • I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flash briefly.
  • To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
    • (Robert Burns)

    grim

    English

    Adjective

    (grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
    • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
    • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
    • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
    • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !