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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, sparkle |
| Synonyms: | beam, brilliance, coruscation, flash, flicker, glance, glim, glimmer, glint, glitz, gloss, glow, luster, ray, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, splendor, twinkle |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ray of light |
| Synonyms: | bar, beacon, chink, column, dartle, emission, finger, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, laser, radiation, ray, shaft, shimmer, shoot, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | smile broadly |
| Synonyms: | gleam, glow, grin, laugh, radiate, shine, smirk |
| Antonyms: | frown, scowl |
Example Sentences
- Wild columbines nod in the thin woodland and on rocky hillsides with a flash of crimson and a golden yellow gleam.
- Research with human embryos is not a mere gleam in the eye of medical science.
- Little waves played with the sun, sometimes throwing a gleam into our eyes.
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shine, as a light |
| Synonyms: | burn, emit, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiate, yield |
| Antonyms: | be dark |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash of light |
| Synonyms: | beam, brilliance, burst, flare, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiance |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, burst out, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, fulgurate, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, incandesce, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle |
| Main Entry: | brighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make shine or glow |
| Synonyms: | buff up, burnish, clear up, enliven, gleam, grow sunny, illuminate, illumine, intensify, kindle, light up, lighten, polish, punch up, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | darken, deepen, dull, fade |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, bedazzlement, blaze, burst, coruscation, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illumination, imprint, impulse, incandescence, luster, phosphorescence, quiver, radiation, ray, reflection, scintillation, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle, twinkling, vision |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, bedazzle, blaze, blink, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, incandesce, light, phosphoresce, radiate, reflect, scintillate, shine, shoot out, spangle, spark, sparkle, twinkle |
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