(a.) Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.
(a.) Transmitting light; clear; transparent.
(a.) Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty.
(a.) Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
(a.) Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
(a.) Illustrious; glorious.
(a.) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
(a.) Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
(n.) Splendor; brightness.
(adv.) Brightly.
(v. t.) To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(3) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(4) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
(5) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(6) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(7) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(8) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
(9) Rats exposed to the bright-light condition suffered a pronounced loss of photoreceptor cells by 10 weeks, and an even greater cell loss by 17 weeks.
(10) Even Paul Bright had to get a private charity to fund half his work.
(11) There was a uniform decrease in brightness discrimination to either side of the foveal peak.
(12) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.
(13) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
(14) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(15) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
(16) Ultrastructural cytochemistry with XRMA is limited by the need to use high-brightness electron sources.
(17) Kobani impressed on the Kurds that Erdoğan could not be trusted and that anti-Kurdish feeling continued to burn brightly in the Turkish state.
(18) The administration of the drug in Stage 1 improved the acquisition of the initial brightness discrimination and facilitated reversal learning independently of the drug administered in Stage 2.
(19) The highest expression was noted in a recurrent plexiform ameloblastoma in which almost 100% of the tumor cells were brightly reactive.
(20) Mercaptoacetate, injected in the middle of the bright phase, reduced the latency to eat but did not affect the duration of the subsequent IMI or cumulative food intake in LF rats.
Dazzling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dazzle
Example Sentences:
(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) The dazzling Deulofeu was the instigator of the first.
(3) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
(4) In line with his modest and humble public image, Francis exhibits a strong taste for Italian neorealist cinema, which eschewed Hollywood razzle-dazzle and told morally powerful stories set among the working class.
(5) Police officers resigned and politicians were embarrassed as the scandal erupted, but Scotland Yard – with dazzling cynicism – has reacted by trying to silence the kind of police whistleblowers who helped to expose the failures of their leaders; and ambitious politicians continue to dine with Rupert Murdoch.
(6) The script and characters were brought together with great writing and meticulous research and the abundant oversimplification was entirely forgivable for the dazzling human drama.
(7) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(8) However, when it came to the burning question of Trump Jr’s would-be dealings with Russia, the US president acted like an American in Paris who is high on champagne, dazzled by the sights and eager to get to dinner at the Eiffel Tower.
(9) As well as enhancing the author's fame and credibility, the meeting helped set Bowie's trajectory for the next few years – a series of dazzling physical and artistic changes that would not slow until the early 1980s.
(10) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
(11) For the boy in ragged trousers, who had to struggle right up to the time De Wet removed him from the world of financial responsibility, money was dazzling.
(12) Dazzle glare resulting from the accumulation of cystine crystals in ocular tissue may account for glare disability seen in these patients and contribute to their complaints of photophobia.
(13) When I was a boy, people thought our technological limit was reached with the dazzling Flying Scotsman's train engine.
(14) World Cup fans were dazzled this summer by Howard’s performances in Brazil, which included a record-setting 16 saves in a second-round match the USA nonetheless lost, 2-1 in extra time, to Belgium.
(15) It's easy to see Bruckheimer as Hollywood's Simon Cowell , churning out hollow razzle-dazzle for the multiplex masses, most of it based on pre-existing properties.
(16) The British Retail Consortium said shops enjoyed a "dazzling" week before Christmas and the best month of sales since January last year, but it believes much of the sales surge was created by bargain hunting.
(17) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(18) If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, therefore, Madonna believes she deserved to be treated differently from other visiting foreigners, it is worth making her aware that Malawi has hosted many international stars, including Chuck Norris, Bono, David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature.
(19) If Hollande's Sunday rally was aimed at injecting some dazzle into what critics have called an unexciting campaign, the manifesto launch marked Hollande's return to the careful, number-crunching technocrat who ran the Socialist party for 11 years.
(20) He explained to his educated readers how these elaborate, glass-fronted, gas-lit buildings were “perfectly dazzling when contrasted with the darkness and dirt” of the street, thereby luring in many locals.