Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brief beam or flash of light.
- noun A steady but subdued shining; a glow.
- noun A brief or dim indication; a trace.
- intransitive verb To emit a gleam; flash or glow: synonym: flash.
- intransitive verb To be reflected as a gleam.
- intransitive verb To be manifested or indicated briefly or faintly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dart or throw rays of light; glimmer; glitter; shine; dawn; hence, to appear suddenly and clearly, like a beam or flash of light.
- To glance; look.
- Synonyms Glisten, Glitter, etc. See
glare , intransitive verb - Same as
glean . - noun Brightness; splendor.
- noun A flash of light; a beam; a ray; a small stream of light; a dim or subdued glow; hence, something conceived as analogous to a flash or beam of light.
- noun Specifically— A flash of lightning.
- noun A hot interval between showers.
- In falconry, to disgorge refuse from the stomach, as a hawk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
- noun Brightness; splendor.
- transitive verb To shoot, or dart, as rays of light.
- transitive verb To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
- transitive verb To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
- intransitive verb (Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
small or indistinctshaft or stream oflight . - noun a
glimpse orhint ; anindistinct sign of something. - noun
brightness orshininess ;splendor . - verb To
shine ; toglitter ; toglisten . - verb To be
briefly butstrongly apparent . - verb obsolete, falconry To
disgorge filth , as a hawk.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb appear briefly
- noun an appearance of reflected light
- noun a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- verb be shiny, as if wet
- verb shine brightly, like a star or a light
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Because East Valley HS, despite its high tech gleam, is full of gangs. linus Says:
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See what you can gleam from the latest footage posted over at You Tube through Michael Bay's site, bear with it as we get some Pirates stuff beforehand, but then it's all Transformers.
Filmstalker: More Transformers behind the scenes footage 2006
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The bed, the mirror, the white jug and basin gleam like the sky outside.
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Already, as I was crossing the house yard, I thought there was something familiar in the gleam from the fire, and when I opened the door, it flashed across my mind that I was going into our own cabin and that father and mother would be sitting by the hearth.
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Shakespeare makes Portia exclaim, when she sees the light of a candle, the only light for the palaces of kings in her day, gleam from the window of her home, which she is approaching.
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There was no light save a ruddy gleam from the kitchen on the depths of that dark passage which traversed the whole breadth of the house, and that which shone through the crevices of the dining-room door.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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The town, beyond which shines the silver sea, is white as pearls in the moonlight, with here and there a yellow gleam from a lamp through an open door.
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That light is neither the gleam from a cottage, nor yet a friendly man with a lanthorn, as you think, though, for the matter of that, the light is friendly enough to those who understand it.
Parables From Nature 1857
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All my co-workers, I bet, have sat at these tables at night, ordering platefuls of éclairs and perhaps even glasses of the cognac and champagne whose golden labels gleam behind the counter.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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All my co-workers, I bet, have sat at these tables at night, ordering platefuls of éclairs and perhaps even glasses of the cognac and champagne whose golden labels gleam behind the counter.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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