glow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊ/
ipa: /ɡloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: glows
form: glowing
form: glowed
form: glew
form: glowed
form: glew
form: glown
Etymology: From Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-West Germanic *glōan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa, Finnish loistaa. See also glass.
Senses: examples: text: The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
glosses: To emit light as if heated.
examples: text: Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
text: After their workout, the gymnasts' faces were glowing red.
glosses: To radiate thermal heat.
examples: text: The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
text: You are glowing from happiness!
text: A fire which every windy paſſion blows; / With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
ref: 1669 June (first performance), John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1670, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 19:
text: Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book IX”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: To display intense emotion.
glosses: To gaze especially passionately at something.
examples: text: The new baby's room glows with bright, loving colors.
text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To shine brightly and steadily.
examples: text: Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To make hot; to flush.
examples: text: Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 5:
text: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
ref: 1727, John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan:
glosses: To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
examples: text: If this post glows any brighter I'm going to need sunglasses. 😄🕶👌
ref: 2018 August 26, anonymous author, “Cryptographic crumpling: The encryption 'middle ground' for government surveillance”, in alt.privacy (Usenet):
glosses: To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
glosses: to expose someone to the authorities.
glosses: to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
Derived terms: glew
glower
glowing
glow-in-the-dark
glownigger
glow up
glowy
outglow
reglow
Related terms: word: gleed
english: an informant, a spy
translation: an informant, a spy
word: glowie
word: fedpost