Glow vs Dazzle - What's the difference?

Glow is a related term of dazzle.

In lang=en terms the difference between glow and dazzle

is that glow is to feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc; to burn while dazzle is to be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

As verbs the difference between glow and dazzle

is that glow is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated while dazzle is to confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.

As nouns the difference between glow and dazzle

is that glow is the state of a glowing object while dazzle is a light of dazzling brilliancy.

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

dazzle

English

Verb

(dazzl)

To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.

Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.

* Milton

Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.

* Sir H. Taylor

An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.

(figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

* Francis Bacon

An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .

* Dryden

I dare not trust these eyes; / They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.

Derived terms

* dazzler * dazzlement

Noun

(s)

A light of dazzling brilliancy.

(uncommon) A herd of zebra.

* 1958', Laurens Van der Post, ''The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory'' (' 1998 David Coulson edition):

We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly

* 2009 , Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts , page 176:

Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt,

* 2010 , Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa , page 22:

I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.

Synonyms

* herd