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Glitter vs Beaming - What's the difference?

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Glitter is a synonym of beaming.


As nouns the difference between glitter and beaming

is that glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage while beaming is the act of someone or something that beams.

As verbs the difference between glitter and beaming

is that glitter is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam while beaming is .

As an adjective beaming is

smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

glitter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
  • A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
    • a glittering sword
    the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
  • * Dryden
    • The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
  • To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
    • the glittering scenes of a court

    Derived terms

    * all that glitters is not gold

    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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