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Scintillate

verb
(past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)
1.
Give off.
2.
Reflect brightly.  Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.
3.
Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner.  Synonyms: twinkle, winkle.
4.
Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.
5.
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



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