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Glittering vs Splitting - What's the difference?

glittering | splitting |

As verbs the difference between glittering and splitting

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

As adjectives the difference between glittering and splitting

is that glittering is brightly sparkling while splitting is resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.

As nouns the difference between glittering and splitting

is that glittering is the appearance of something that glitters while splitting is an instance where something splits.

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.

    splitting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance where something .
  • (psychology) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
  • * 2007 , Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche , Penguin 2008, p. 308:
  • In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting ’.
  • (chemistry) The cleavage of a covalent bond.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
  • Severe.
  • I have a splitting headache.

    Verb

    (head)