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Scintillate

verb

(past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)

Give off.

Reflect brightly. Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.

Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner. Synonyms: twinkle, winkle.

Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.

Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity. Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle. "A scintillating conversation" , "His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"

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"Scintillate" Quotes from Famous Books

... play continued, without further sparks, or only such as appeared to scintillate from the eyes of the combatants. Then came a counter-thrust, quickly followed by a counter parry, with no ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

... first-magnitudes had done, while the larger worlds were points of indescribable glory and colour. Aldebaran was a spot of blood-red fire, and Sirius condensed to one point the light of innumerable sapphires. And they shone steadily: they did not scintillate, they were calmly glorious. My impressions had an adamantine hardness and brightness: there was no blurring softness, no atmosphere, nothing but infinite darkness set with the myriads of these acute and brilliant points and specks of light. Presently, ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

Words linked to "Scintillate" : give off, give out, be, fluoresce, celestial body, scintilla, reflect, shine, scintillation, beam, coruscate, heavenly body, scintillant, emit