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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To throw off sparks; flash.
  2. v. To sparkle or shine. See Synonyms at flash.
  3. v. To be animated and brilliant: dinner conversation that scintillated.
  4. v. To give off (sparks or flashes).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To emit sparks; hence, to sparkle or twinkle, as the fixed stars.
  2. Synonyms Sparkle, Glister, etc. (see glare, intransitive verb) coruscate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
  2. v. transitive To throw off like sparks.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
  2. v. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
  2. v. reflect brightly
  3. v. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
  4. v. give off
  5. v. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner

Etymologies

  1. From Latin scintillatus, past participle of scintillare ("to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash"), from scintilla ("a spark") (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin scintillāre, scintillāt-, from scintilla, spark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • seanahan That's pretty funny oroboros. Dec 29, 2006

  • oroboros "sin till late" Dec 28, 2006

  • quaxanta Scintillate, scintillate, globule lucific.
    Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.

    (a more, ahem, wordy version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) Dec 6, 2006

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