(a.) To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
(a.) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.
(a.) To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.
(a.) To make acute or witty; to enliven.
(v. i.) To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lewinsky affair did not leave him disillusioned and Engskov's eyes brighten as he recalls his time in Washington: "It was an idealistic time.
(2) The fluorescent brightening agent, applied as a counterstain, aided in the location of the specimen.
(3) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(4) The taxidermist's eyes brightened, and he led me to a human skeleton half hidden in the back of the room.
(5) The nucleus, a huge lump of rock and ice, was several miles wide on its approach to the sun, and brightened as the sun heated it to create an atmosphere, or coma, of ice and dust which was blown away from the sun to form a tail.
(6) To assess their potential use as fluorescent stains for flow cytometry, the cell staining specificity of 55 compounds, originally synthesized for use as textile dyes and fluorescent brighteners, was explored and their excitation and emission wavebands determined.
(7) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
(8) These results suggest specific properties associated with the brightening and dimming systems.
(9) With respect to vital staining the optical brightener Blankophor RKH exhibited most favorable properties.
(10) We have so many beautiful things …” She brightens up.
(11) We attribute the brightness shift to the saturation of the transient response: a limitation on the maximum transient when responding to rapid brightening or dimming.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New Brighton, Wallasey: the New Brighteners, a self help group formed in the Wirral, have a formed a volunteer group to keep the shore and beaches clean of plastic litter.
(13) Add the chopped stems to the onions and continue cooking till they have both softened and brightened.
(14) The short-term prospects have undoubtedly brightened.
(15) A reduction in the accommodative lag during book retinoscopy would result in brightening of the reflex along with a shift in the "against" direction.
(16) Hyper-pigmentation as a manifestation of contact sensitivity to optical brighteners has previously been reported.
(17) This polarity-sensitive adaptation fits with Jung's hypothesis that separate channels signal 'brightening' and 'darkening' in the human visual system.
(18) Updated at 11.22am BST 10.45am BST Italy brightens the mood Further reaction on the Italian bond sale from Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Strategy.
(19) News that Italy had surprisingly fallen back into recession in the second quarter coupled with evidence that the faltering recovery in the eurozone was having a dampening impact on German industry contributed to a downbeat mood brightened only when shares on Wall Street rose in early trading.
(20) Instawindow … The cheap and cheerful way to brighten up your view.
Splendor
Definition:
(n.) Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.
(n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like.
(n.) Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that the helminthotoxic MBP is deposited on eggs in granulomas in human tissues and suggest that the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon is accounted for in part by deposition of eosinophil granule MBP.
(2) They were cuffed with a wide zone of necrotic cell coagulum, or with homogeneous eosinophilic Splendore-Hoeppli granules.
(3) All cases showed the histologic features of the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon, that is, a giant cell and eosinophil granulomatous reaction to an antigen-antibody precipitate originally described in relation to parasites or fungi.
(4) Bravery is a many-splendored but very nuanced thing.
(5) Actinomyces-like granules showing the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon have been demonstrated in histologic material, e.g.
(6) Extensive extracellular MBP deposition was present in the necrotic migration tracks in the brain and around larvae in the mesenteric granulomata in association with the radiating eosinophilic deposits characteristic of the "Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon."
(7) This pseudo-Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon appears to be caused by adsorption of plasma and fibrin to the hyphal walls in the absence of both neutrophilic response and extensive fibrin clotting.
(8) But then in 1997, Araki committed the ultimate transgression: he began a relationship with a woman, Kathleen Robertson, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210, whom he'd cast in Nowhere and his 1999 film Splendor, a menage-a-trois screwball comedy.
(9) Histologically, localized infections are characterized by lack of vessel invasion and the presence of an eosinophilic sleeve around fungal elements, called the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon.
(10) Eosinophilic granulomas with Splendore-Hoeppli material were present in mesenteric lymph nodes in four ferrets.
(11) Small granulomas, sometimes containing radiating clubs, and Splendore-Hoeppli material were present in the regional lymph node.
(12) Typical asteroid bodies (Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon) with central yeast cells were seen.
(13) Splendore-Hoeppli like phenomenon and eosinophilic inflammatory reaction around the hyphae, was microscopically observed.
(14) The bulk of information on rehabilitation of the face has come from clinical empiricism, but basic research in nerve and muscle physiology and attempts at multiple classifications regarding indications and criteria have added to the splendor of this drama.
(15) Pleistophora simulii (Lutz et Splendore, 1904): reticulated or net-like plasmodial envelope, formation of pansporoblastic structures looking like short pipes.
(16) The Splendore-Hoeppli deposits consist in part of eosinophil granule MBP.
(17) These sheathes are regarded as one form of the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon.
(18) The third patient presented with the rarely described nodular hypersensitivity conjunctivitis (Splendore-Hoeppli reaction) and it is suggested that these ophthalmologically observed asymptomatic lesions are apparently clinically transient so reports may be few because of infrequent biopsy.
(19) The peripheral coating of larvae was suggestive of the Splendore-Hoeppli effect which has been associated with immunological responsiveness.
(20) Presenting the Pope's controversial encyclical on moral questions, Veritatis Splendor, in 1993, he demolished the challenge of a young reporter on contraception by counter-challenging: "Have you actually read Humanae Vitae?"