glow vs incandescence what difference
what is difference between glow and incandescence
English
Etymology
From Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa. See also glass.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡləʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡloʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Verb
glow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (nonstandard) glew, past participle glowed or (nonstandard) glown)
- To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
- To radiate some emotional quality like light.
- To gaze especially passionately at something.
- (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
- To shine brightly and steadily.
- (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
- (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
- Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
- 1727, John Gay, Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan
- The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
- (Internet slang, politics, far-right) to expose someone to the authorities.
- (Internet slang, politics, far-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
Derived terms
- glew
- outglow
Related terms
- gleed
- glowie (an informant, a spy)
Translations
Noun
glow (countable and uncountable, plural glows)
- The light given off by a glowing object.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- Thus all that Art and Con had to do, when the night was favourable, was to advance a little way along the avenue, until they reached the place whence the light, if it was burning, must be visible, as a glow, a feeble glow, in the air, and thence to go on, towards the back door, or to go back, towards the gate, as the case might be.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
- The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one’s face).
- He had a bright red glow on his face.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- gowl, w.l.o.g., wlog
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English glīwian.
Verb
glow
- Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).
Etymology 2
From Old French gluer.
Verb
glow
- Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French incandescence.
Morphologically incandesce + -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.əns/, /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.əns/
Noun
incandescence (usually uncountable, plural incandescences)
- (physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
- the light so emitted
- (by extension) great emotion, especially anger
Translations
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