Glow vs Irradiate - What's the difference?
glow | irradiate |
To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
To radiate some emotional quality like light.
* Dryden
* Alexander Pope
To gaze especially passionately at something.
To radiate thermal heat.
To shine brightly and steadily.
* , chapter=5
, title= To make hot; to flush.
* Shakespeare
To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
* Addison
* John Gay
The state of a glowing object.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
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).
To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.
* Sir W. Jones
To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate.
* Bishop George Bull
To animate by heat or light.
To radiate, shed, or diffuse.
* H. James
To emit rays; to shine.
To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria
Illuminated; irradiated; made brilliant or splendid.
In lang=en terms the difference between glow and irradiate
is that glow is to feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc; to burn while irradiate is to treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria.As verbs the difference between glow and irradiate
is that glow is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated while irradiate is to throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.As a noun glow
is the state of a glowing object.As an adjective irradiate is
illuminated; irradiated; made brilliant or splendid.glow
English
Verb
(en verb)- With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .
- Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .
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.}}
- Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
- Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
- The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
Noun
(-)- 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.
- He had a bright red glow on his face.
Anagrams
*irradiate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Thy smile irradiates yon blue fields.
- to irradiate the mind
- And indeed we ought, in these happy intervals, when our understandings are thus irradiated and enlightened, to make a judgment of the state and condition of our souls in the sight of God
- a splendid facade, irradiating hospitality