Scintillate vs Outshine - What's the difference?
scintillate | outshine |
To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
To throw off like sparks.
to shine brighter than something else
to exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=December 29
, author=Paul Doyle
, title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle
, work=The Guardian
To shine forth.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between scintillate and outshine
is that scintillate is to give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow while outshine is to shine brighter than something else.scintillate
English
Verb
(scintillat)External links
* * * ----outshine
English
Verb
citation, page= , passage=Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low 15-yard shot past Tim Krul and into the far corner. }}
- Bright, outshining beams.