glowing

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glow

(glō)

intr.v. glowed, glow·ing, glows

1. To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame: Embers glowed in the furnace.

a. To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color: The children's cheeks glowed from the cold.

b. To flush; blush.

3. To be exuberant or radiant: parents glowing with pride.

1. A light produced by a body heated to luminosity; incandescence.

2. Brilliance or warmth of color, especially redness: "the evening glow of the city streets when the sun has gone behind the tallest houses" (Seán O'Faoláin).

3. A sensation of physical warmth.

4. A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.

[Middle English glouen, from Old English glōwan; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

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glowing

(ˈɡləʊɪŋ)

adj

1. emitting a steady bright light without flames: glowing embers.

2. (Colours) warm and rich in colour: the room was decorated in glowing shades of gold and orange.

3. flushed and rosy, as from exercise or excitement: glowing cheeks.

4. displaying or indicative of extreme satisfaction, pride, or emotion: he gave a glowing account of his son's achievements.

ˈglowingly adv

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

glow•ing

(ˈgloʊ ɪŋ)

adj.

1. incandescent.

2. rich and warm in coloring: glowing colors.

3. showing the radiance of health, excitement, etc.

4. warmly favorable or complimentary: a glowing account of her work.

[before 1000]

glow′ing•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	glowing - the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface radiance, glow aureole, corona - the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse light, visible light, visible radiation - (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"
Adj.	1.	glowing - highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise" enthusiastic - having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons"

glowing

adjective

1. complimentary, enthusiastic, rave (informal), ecstatic, rhapsodic, laudatory, adulatory, eulogistic The premiere of his play received glowing reviews.
complimentary cruel, scathing, dispassionate, unenthusiastic

2. aglow, red, bright, beaming, radiant, suffused a happy face, glowing with good health
aglow pale, wan, pallid

3. flushed, red, flaming, ruddy, florid, aglow Her face was glowing with humiliation.

4. bright, vivid, vibrant, rich, warm, radiant, luminous stained glass in rich, glowing colours
bright cool, grey, dull, colourless

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glowing

adjective

1. Bright and clear in complexion; not dull or faded:

blooming, creamy, fresh, peaches-and-cream.

2. Of a healthy reddish color:

blooming, florid, flush, flushed, full-blooded, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine.

3. Fired with intense feeling:

ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.

Translations

مُتَوَهِّج

svítícízářící

glødendestrålende

leuchtend

resplandeciente brillante incandescente

rutilant

glóandi

ardente incandescente raggiante

parlak

鲜艳的

glowing

[ˈgləʊɪŋ] ADJ

1. [light etc] → brillante; [fire, colour] → vivo; [complexion, cheeks etc] → encendido

2. [person] (with health, pleasure) → rebosante

3. (fig) [report, description etc] → entusiasta

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

glowing

[ˈgləʊɪŋ] adj

[fire] → rougeoyant(e)

[complexion] → éclatant(e)

[report, description] → élogieux/euse
to speak in glowing terms about sb/sth → parler de qn/qch en termes élogieux

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

glowing

adj

→ glühend; candle, colour, eyes → leuchtend; cheeks, complexion → blühend; to be glowing with health → blühend aussehen

(fig: = enthusiastic) account, description → begeistert; words → leidenschaftlich, begeistert; praise, report → überschwänglich; pride, admiration, enthusiasm → glühend; to speak of somebody/something in glowing terms → voller Begeisterung von jdm/etw sprechen; to paint something in glowing colours (fig) → etw in den leuchtendsten Farben schildern

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

glowing

[ˈgləʊɪŋ] adj (light) → caldo/a; (fire) → ardente; (complexion) → luminoso/a; (cheeks, colour) → acceso/a; (person, with health) → florido/a; (with pleasure) → raggiante (fig) (report, description) → entusiasta
to paint sth in glowing colours (fig) → dire meraviglie di qc

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

glow

(gləu) verb

1. to give out heat or light without any flame. The coal was glowing in the fire.

2. to have red cheeks because of heat, cold, emotion etc. The little boy glowed with pride.

noun

the state of glowing. the glow of the coal in the fire.

ˈglowing adjective

glowing colours.

ˈglow-worm noun

a kind of beetle whose tail glows in the dark.

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Grandfather loved a wood-fire far better than a grate of glowing anthracite, or than the dull heat of an invisible furnace, which seems to think that it has done its duty in merely warming the house.

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1-16) (34) And now, O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing of glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far- shining one, bare to the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.

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She was glowing from her morning toilet as only healthful youth can glow: there was gem-like brightness on her coiled hair and in her hazel eyes; there was warm red life in her lips; her throat had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the fur which itself seemed to wind about her neck and cling down her blue-gray pelisse with a tenderness gathered from her own, a sentient commingled innocence which kept its loveliness against the crystalline purity of the outdoor snow.

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The child released its hold on the mother's hand, and floating slowly upward, remained poised in midair--a softly glowing presence shining out of the dark background of the trees.

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After many years, on looking back from the middle turn of life's way at the events of the past, which, like a friendly crowd, seem to gaze sadly after us hastening towards the Cimmerian shore, we may see here and there, in the gray throng, some figure glowing with a faint radiance, as though it had caught all the light of our already crepuscular sky.

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She wept for very pleasure when she felt their little arms clasping her; their hard, ruddy cheeks pressed against her own glowing cheeks.

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At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction.

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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

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The woman of granite, built to last for ever, continued to look at the glowing logs which made a sort of fiery ruin on the white pile of ashes.

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"Generous man!" cried the Astronomer, glowing with warm and elevated sentiments, "pay me, then, what you will."

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No sooner said than the intensely red speck of fire was glowing within the pipe-bowl; and the scarecrow, without waiting for the witch's bidding, applied the tube to his lips and drew in a few short, convulsive whiffs, which soon, however, became regular and equable.

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There were the rolling meadows, the stately elms, all yellow and brown now; the glowing maples, the garden-beds bright with asters, and the hollyhocks, rising tall against the parlor windows; only in place of the cheerful pinks and reds of the nodding stalks, with their gay rosettes of bloom, was a crape scarf holding the blinds together, and another on the sitting-room side, and another on the brass knocker of the brown-painted door.