Glistening vs Shimmery - What's the difference?
glistening | shimmery |
The appearance of something that glistens.
* 2008 , Dan Simmons, Song of Kali
(optics) A fluid-filled microvacuole within a lens.
Appearing to shimmer, glistening.
* 1957 , Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
As a verb glistening
is .As a noun glistening
is the appearance of something that glistens.As an adjective shimmery is
appearing to shimmer, glistening.glistening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- My eyes had adjusted to the faint starlight and I could make out pale glistenings and white glow of bones which had worked their way free of clinging flesh.
shimmery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines. Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold