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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beam; indication |
| Synonyms: | bar, blaze, blink, emanation, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, hint, incandescence, irradiation, light, moonbeam, patch, pencil, radiance, radiation, scintilla, shaft, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, sunbeam, trace, wave |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| 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: | flicker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spark, glimmer |
| Synonyms: | beam, flare, flash, gleam, oscillation, quivering, ray, scintillation, twinkle, vibration |
| Main Entry: | gleam |
| 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: | glimmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash, sparkle |
| Synonyms: | blink, coruscation, flicker, glance, gleam, glint, glow, grain, hint, inkling, ray, scintillation, shimmer, suggestion, trace, twinkle |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning, brightness |
| Synonyms: | afterglow, bloom, blossom, blush, brilliance, effulgence, flush, glare, gleam, glimmer, glitter, gusto, heat, incandescence, intensity, lambency, light, luminosity, passion, phosphorescence, radiance, ray, splendor, vividness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | illumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light; making light |
| Synonyms: | beam, brightening, brightness, brilliance, flame, flash, gleam, lighting, lights, radiance, ray |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dimness |
| Main Entry: | iota |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small bit |
| Synonyms: | atom, crumb, grain, hint, infinitesimal, jot, mite, molecule, nucleus, ounce, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, smidgen, speck, trace, whit |
| Antonyms: | lot |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luminescence from sun or other source |
| Synonyms: | aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, bulb, candle, coruscation, dawn, daybreak, daylight, daytime, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, fulgor, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, luminosity, luster, morn, morning, phosphorescence, radiance, radiation, ray, refulgence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunbeam, sunrise, sunshine, taper, torch, window |
| Antonyms: | dark, darkness, night, obscurity |
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