Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A momentary flash of light; a sparkle.
  • noun A faint or fleeting indication; a trace.
  • intransitive verb To gleam or give out small flashes of light, usually by reflection: synonym: flash.
  • intransitive verb To be reflected in small flashes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gleam; a shimmer of light, as through a chink; a flash, as of lightning.
  • noun A glimpse; a momentary view.
  • Slippery.
  • 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
  • transitive verb To glance; to turn.
  • transitive verb To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun short flash of light
  • verb to flash briefly

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb throw a glance at; take a brief look at
  • noun a spatially localized brightness
  • verb be shiny, as if wet
  • noun a momentary flash of light

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English glent, of Scandinavian origin; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • And they are almost all powered by solar panels which glint from the walls and rooftops wherever you look.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Tony Curtis (sword glint of light off teeth) and Natalie Wood, beautiful in white tulle (lungs not yet waterlogged) in heady love.

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  • 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.

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  • You may recall the glint of joy in that bully's eyes way back when.

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  • 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.

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