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Globed vs Glowed - What's the difference?

globed | glowed |

As verbs the difference between globed and glowed

is that globed is (globe) while glowed is (glow).

globed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (globe)

    • globe

    English

    (wikipedia globe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
    • the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
  • The planet Earth.
    • (John Locke)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
  • (dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
  • * 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
    • Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
  • A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
  • * Milton
    • Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

    Synonyms

    * (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol III

    Derived terms

    * globe-trotter * show globe * snowglobe

    Related terms

    * global * globular

    Verb

    (glob)
  • To become spherical
    • ----

    glowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (glow)

    • Anagrams

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    glow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • * Dryden
    • With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .
  • To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • To radiate thermal heat.
  • To shine brightly and steadily.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • To make hot; to flush.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
  • To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • * Addison
    • Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
  • * John Gay
    • The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of a glowing object.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
    • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  • The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
    • He had a bright red glow on his face.

    Anagrams

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