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Pearl vs Glitter - What's the difference?

pearl | glitter |

As a proper noun pearl

is from the english noun pearl.

As a noun glitter is

a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.

As a verb glitter is

to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.

pearl

English

(wikipedia pearl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
  • (figuratively) Something precious.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."
  • A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
  • Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
  • A whitish speck or film on the eye.
    • (Milton)
  • A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
  • A light-colored tern.
  • One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
  • (typography) Five-point size of type, between agate and diamond.
  • A fringe or border.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
  • To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
  • To resemble pearl or pearls.
  • To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
  • (surfing) to dig the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
  • * 1999, Joanne VanMeter [http://www.letsplay.net/archive99/020399.shtml]:
    • Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts.

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "pearl") * cultured pearl * mabe pearl * mother-of-pearl * pearl ash * pearl diver * pearl barley * pearl cotton * pearl essence * pearl gray * pearl millet * pearl necklace * pearl of wisdom * pearl onion * pearl oyster * perlemoen * pearler * pearlescent * pearling * pearly * pearly king * pearly nautilus * pearly queen * pearly whites * seed pearl * sulfur pearl

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    glitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
  • A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
    • a glittering sword
    the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
  • * Dryden
    • The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
  • To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
    • the glittering scenes of a court

    Derived terms

    * all that glitters is not gold