glow
part of speech
verb (glow, glows, glowed, glowing); noun (a glow)
meaning for a pupil
1) To glow is to give out a soft, steady light without flames. tree →
2) A glow is a soft warm light. tree →
3) To glow is to look warm, pink or healthy, often after exercise or when happy. tree →
4) To glow with a feeling means to show it clearly, like glowing with pride. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, some things glow because they are hot (embers, a light bulb filament), and some animals glow by themselves (fireflies, some sea creatures — bioluminescence). Glow-in-the-dark toys store light and give it back slowly. In stories, glow creates a warm or mysterious mood. Phrases: glow in the dark, glow with pride, the glow of the fire, a warm glow, glow-worm.
examples
- The embers glowed red in the fireplace. tree →
- My stickers glow in the dark. tree →
- Fireflies glow on summer nights. tree →
- Her cheeks glowed after the run. tree →
- He glowed with pride when he won. tree →
- We saw the glow of the city lights from the hill. tree →
- A glow-worm shines in the grass. tree →
- Men call this the Alpine glow. tree →
note
Glow is softer than shine or blaze. Glowing embers can still burn you and start a fire, even with no flames. "Glowing" can describe praise: a glowing report means a very good one.
In the corpora
- Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs.
- Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.
- Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing animals, and some have tube-shaped eyes that look upward.
- There are over 500 kinds, and many are small, flat, glowing or very strange.
- Neon gas glows orange-red when electricity passes through it; each element glows with its own colours.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «glow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.