Glow vs Shining - What's the difference?
glow | shining |
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).
Emitting light.
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, title= Reflecting light.
Having a high polish or sheen.
Having exceptional merit.
As verbs the difference between glow and shining
is that glow is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated while shining is .As nouns the difference between glow and shining
is that glow is the state of a glowing object while shining is a bright emission of light; a gleam.As an adjective shining is
emitting light.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
*shining
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining , and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
