coruscate vs scintillate what difference

what is difference between coruscate and scintillate

English

Alternative forms

• corruscate (dated)

Etymology

From the Latin coruscō (“I flash”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹəskeɪt/, /ˈkɔːɹəskeɪt/
• enPR: kôrʹə-skāt, kŏrʹə-skāt

Verb

coruscate (third-person singular simple present coruscates, present participle coruscating, simple past and past participle coruscated)

1. (intransitive) To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.
2. (intransitive) To exhibit brilliant technique or style.
   • 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell,” A Book of Answers:

     For truth and tenderness do more / Than coruscating metaphor.

Synonyms

• gleam
• glimmer
• glisten
• glitter
• radiate
• scintillate
• sheen
• shine
• sparkle
• twinkle

Translations

Anagrams

• accouters, accoutres, cocurates, court case

Italian

Verb

coruscate

1. inflection of coruscare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of coruscato

Anagrams

• stracuoce

Latin

Verb

coruscāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coruscō

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scintillātus, past participle of scintillāre (“to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash”), from scintilla (“a spark”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.tɪˌleɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.təˌleɪt/
• Hyphenation: scin‧til‧late

Verb

scintillate (third-person singular simple present scintillates, present participle scintillating, simple past and past participle scintillated)

1. (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
   1. (astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
   2. (nuclear physics) Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
2. (transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished as Barchester Towers. […] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, [1860], OCLC 863553483, page 201:

     As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.

Derived terms

• scintillating (adjective)
• scintillation
• scintillator

Related terms

• scintilla
• stencil
• tinsel

Translations

Further reading

• scintillate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scintillate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scintillate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

scintillate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of scintillare

Latin

Verb

scintillāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of scintillō

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