(n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
(n.) Brightness; splendor.
(v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
(v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
(v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Example Sentences:
(1) Archaeologists still argue about what it originally held, but visitors can now peer inside and see gleaming in the darkness a statue of Taharqa, loaned by Southampton museums.
(2) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(3) Half a dozen bodyguards fan out from the trucks, and when they are in position, the Ace slowly climbs down from the driving seat of his gleaming landcruiser.
(4) Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land,” Trump said in his speech before Congress last Tuesday as he renewed a campaign promise, vowing to ask Congress for a $1tn infrastructure investment package financed through public and private capital.
(5) In this she differs from both Jeremy Corbyn and the gleaming-eyed Brexiteers, who share a belief in a route-map to the promised land.
(6) Now Murray and his team-mates – whoever they may be in the final, although his brother, Jamie, is nailed on after reaching two major doubles finals this year – will stare more history in the face, a chance to lift the gleaming goblet for the first time since Fred Perry helped win it in 1936, the year he abandoned British tennis for a life among the professionals in America.
(7) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(8) The eyes gleamed with fury, like the glimpse of flame you have on opening the air vent in a wood stove.
(9) Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.
(10) Tsipras of Athens – a gripping drama entering its final act | Larry Elliott Read more Perhaps you have an image of Deutschland as being a nation of highly skilled, highly rewarded workers in gleaming factories.
(11) At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
(12) At the meeting Burragubba played the didgeridoo, a performance he repeated outside the bank’s gleaming glass and steel headquarters in the City.
(13) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(14) Speaking in Donetsk's Victoria hotel – a gleaming multistorey edifice next to the city's state-of-the-art Donbass football stadium – Taruta says he's confident presidential elections due on 25 May will take place.
(15) We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers while they've forgotten the dross."
(16) For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
(17) Photograph: Supplied by LMK Earlier this year, the Post – whose traffic numbers reached a record 83.1m unique visitors in September 2016, a 40% year-on-year increase – moved from its former base to a gleaming, light-filled building on K Street, where reporters sit cheek-by-jowl with software engineers.
(18) This sort of rabid protectionism might feel depressingly inevitable in the gleaming, super-efficient first world of tournaments such as Germany 2006.
(19) Behind 300 metres of gleaming chain-link fence, men in high-vis jackets paced and measured, while one man stood and watched.
(20) The oil boom has led to an influx of luxury brands and gleaming Rolls Royce showrooms and upmarket shopping malls studded with Gucci, Lacoste and Prada stores line the streets of downtown Baku.
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?"