Sparkling vs Trenchant - What's the difference?
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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.
* '>citation
Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
* Nathaniel John Hollingsworth
A sparkling wine.
* 2011 , Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)
(obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
*1663 ,
*:The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
(figuratively) Keen]]; [[bite, biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit.
*1899 ,
*:His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
Sparkling is a related term of trenchant.
As adjectives the difference between sparkling and trenchant
is that sparkling is of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks while trenchant is (obsolete) fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.As a verb sparkling
is .As a noun sparkling
is act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.sparkling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* glistening, twinkling * (of a beverage) fizzy, carbonatedAntonyms
* (of a beverage) noncarbonated, stillNoun
(en noun)- Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.
- 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.
