Sparkling vs Toy - What's the difference?

sparkling | toy |

As a verb sparkling

is .

As an adjective sparkling

is of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.

As a noun sparkling

is act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.

As a proper noun toy is

sparkling

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(-)

Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.

Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.

Brilliant and vivacious.

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Synonyms

* glistening, twinkling * (of a beverage) fizzy, carbonated

Antonyms

* (of a beverage) noncarbonated, still

Noun

(en noun)

Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.

* Nathaniel John Hollingsworth

Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.

A sparkling wine.

* 2011 , Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)

Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.

toy

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.

A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.

* Abr. Abbot

They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys , great abundance of gold and pearl.

A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.

(obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:

Then seemed him his Lady by him lay, / And to him playnd, how that false winged boy, / Her chast hart had subdewd, to learne Dame pleasures toy .

(obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.

*, vol.1, III.i.2:

Though they do talk with you, and seem to be otherwise employed, and to your thinking very intent and busy, still that toy runs in their mind, that fear, that suspicion, that abuse, that jealousy […].

* Spenser

To fly about playing their wanton toys .

* Beaumont and Fletcher

What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.

* Drayton

Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

(slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.

* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)

It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.

* 2011 , Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 45)

I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.

(obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.

(Shakespeare)

(Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; called also toy mutch.

* Sir Walter Scott

Having, moreover, put on her clean toy , rokelay, and scarlet plaid.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* boy toy * chew toy * cuddly toy * sex toy * toylike * toyshop

Verb

(en verb)

To play (with).

to toy with a piece of food on one's plate

Figo is toying with the English defence.

To ponder or consider.

I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.

(slang) To stimulate with a sex toy.

* 2013 , Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel

He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.