Shiny vs Glow - What's the difference?
shiny | glow |
Reflecting light.
* :
Emitting light.
(colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
(obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
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).
As nouns the difference between shiny and glow
is that shiny is anything shiny; a trinket while glow is the state of a glowing object.As an adjective shiny
is reflecting light.As a verb glow is
to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.shiny
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
- Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
- When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.
Derived terms
* shininessNoun
(shinies)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.