coruscate vs sparkle what difference

what is difference between coruscate and sparkle

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑːkəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑɹkəl/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kəl
• Homophone: SPARQL

Etymology 1

From Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark +‎ -le (diminutive suffix).

Noun

sparkle (countable and uncountable, plural sparkles)

1. A little spark; a scintillation.
   • The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper.

2. Brilliance; luster.

3. Liveliness; vivacity.

4. The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sparklen, sperclen, equivalent to spark +‎ -le (frequentative verb). Cognate with Dutch sparkelen (“to sparkle”).

Alternative forms

• sparckle, sparcle (obsolete)

Verb

sparkle (third-person singular simple present sparkles, present participle sparkling, simple past and past participle sparkled)

1. (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles

2. (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle

   • A Mantelet vp on his shulder hangynge
     Bretful of Rubies reede / as fyr sparklynge
3. (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
4. (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce

5. (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.

Synonyms

• (glisten, flash): shine, glisten, scintillate, radiate, coruscate, glitter, twinkle

Derived terms

• asparkle
• sparkler
• sparkling water

Translations

References

• sparkle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• kerslap

Middle English

Noun

sparkle

1. Alternative form of sparkel

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