Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A momentary flash of light; a sparkle.
- n. A faint or fleeting indication; a trace.
- v. To gleam or flash briefly. See Synonyms at flash.
- v. To cause to gleam or flash.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To shine; gleam; glance; show suddenly, as a gleam of light or a flash of lightning, or an objeet appearing and disappearing.
- To glance; turn the eyes.
- To glance aside; pass by.
- To pass quickly or suddenly, like a gleam of light.
- To reflect in glints or flashes.
- To cast; throw; put aside.
- n. A gleam; a shimmer of light, as through a chink; a flash, as of lightning.
- n. A glimpse; a momentary view.
- Slippery.
Wiktionary
- n. short flash of light
- v. to flash briefly
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
- v. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
- v. To glance; to turn.
WordNet 3.0
- v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at
- n. a spatially localized brightness
- v. be shiny, as if wet
- n. a momentary flash of light
Etymologies
- Middle English glent, of Scandinavian origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And they are almost all powered by solar panels which glint from the walls and rooftops wherever you look.”
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“There's a certain glint to your eyes, Naomi -- and when your voice gets kind of quiet, well, watch out.”
“Tyler Robinson hopes "glint" - the effect seen when light is reflected from an ocean's surface - may reveal the presence of Earth-like planets beyond our cosmic neighbourhood.”
“The glint is the same; the twinkle in the eye of the giver is the same; the cost is a little less, but these are diamonds with a difference.”
“Tony Curtis (sword glint of light off teeth) and Natalie Wood, beautiful in white tulle (lungs not yet waterlogged) in heady love.”
“Among a dozen other things which flashed through his kindling brain he recalled the glint of what now he knew was mockery brightening the pale eyes of the chairman as the door closed behind him.”
“You may recall the glint of joy in that bully's eyes way back when.”
“The cartoon characters on the back of my cereal box have a "glint" in their eyes, but I'm pretty sure there isn't an actual cartoon character sticking his head through the box.”
“The "glint" in the eyes could easily be a bit of white paint.”
“The Palace is quite remarkable," said Ancar, a kind of glint in his eye that Talia didn't understand and didn't at all like.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glint’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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bling
( open list, visual, light, descriptive )
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even more:
sparkle, shine, gleam, glisten, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 35 more... -
Light Verbs
glow, illuminate, radiate, burn, beam, glimmer, glint, shoot, stream, streak, flash, incandesce
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Glancing Blows
glim, glink, glisk, glunch, twire, glint, asquint, fleer, gleek, keek, skelly, flick and 8 more...
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list be blissful (and blessful) list
rio arriba, burnish, gloze, glint, politure, supercalender, tincture, silverture, mottle, postil, beatific, seraphic and 1 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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Light to Surface Interaction
gloss, reflect, shine, bedazzle, mirror, glossy, polished, glint
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