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Glittering vs Sparkling - What's the difference?

glittering | sparkling |

As verbs the difference between glittering and sparkling

is that glittering is present participle of lang=en while sparkling is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between glittering and sparkling

is that glittering is brightly sparkling while sparkling is of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.

As nouns the difference between glittering and sparkling

is that glittering is the appearance of something that glitters while sparkling is act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.

glittering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Brightly sparkling.
  • *
  • *:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  • (lb) Valuable, desirable.
  • *1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p.85:
  • *:Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.

    • Synonyms

    * aglitter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The appearance of something that glitters.
  • * (John Locke)
    • Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings , truth from appearances.

    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.