What's the difference between glint and glow?

Glint


Definition:

  • (n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
  • (v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
  • (v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
  • (2) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
  • (3) If you want to be a contender for the Premier League, some things like this happen.” There was a glint in Pochettino’s eye as he reflected on the Chelsea game, in which nine of Spurs players were booked – a Premier League record – and it was a minor miracle no one was sent off.
  • (4) "You look at the Rolling Stones and you see a glint in their eye.
  • (5) Sun dogs (phantom suns) glint on the horizon in rainbow colours.
  • (6) For a few seconds they kept closed ranks, then they began to separate, one individual showing the glint of a white tail feather, before they vanished once more.
  • (7) Would she be interested in portraying the life of Mrs David - who brought the first glint of the Mediterranean to middle-class kitchens in the dreary 1950s?
  • (8) If the axeman cometh, then he does so with a cheery smile and a glint in his eye, a man who once said his favourite Star Trek character was The Borg, “an alien species which is very similar to the Whips’ office … a collective consciousness dedicated to the eradication of all other species”.
  • (9) Moreover, he says, eyes glinting through spectacles, "It's the only thing I'm quite good at."
  • (10) "I don't know if he had a glint in his eye about the Olympics or not at that point," Boyle says.
  • (11) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
  • (12) 2010s: He's back, aged 107, eyebrows based on Professor Dumbledore's, sex glint all model's own.
  • (13) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
  • (14) As our vehicle pulls up into the compound, he greets me, a tall, spindly figure who, despite being in his early 60s, has the energy and cheeky glint of a teenager.
  • (15) Misanthropy and pessimism (those aspects that gave me such satisfaction 40 years ago) glint through the fabric of the novel, but they signal a call to vigilance rather than defeat.
  • (16) Acapulco's bay sparkled and the big hotels that line the beach glinted in the sunlight in the view from Marino Casiano's tiny flat high in the hills above the resort.
  • (17) Which, gently glinting scalp apart, hardly suggests the cerebral, actorly individual in front of me.
  • (18) That evening, the lights from a Sligo pizzeria glint off the River Garavogue.
  • (19) However, because they are encoded by neural frequency tuning rather than the time-of-occurrence of neural discharges, the perceived range separation of glints in images is not vulnerable to amplitude-latency shifts.
  • (20) The bat then sums the cross-correlation functions for multiple glints to form the entire image of the complex target.

Glow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
  • (v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
  • (v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • (v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
  • (v. t.) To make hot; to flush.
  • (n.) White or red heat; incandscence.
  • (n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
  • (n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
  • (n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) We also remind them that negative feedback is as important as glowing praise.
  • (3) This procedure has been implemented in a computer program which performs the automatic evaluation of the glow curves and extracts the dose information contained in the PTTL curves.
  • (4) Draghi's action received a glowing critical reception across Europe .
  • (5) In bone tissue, so far, positive effects of glow discharge have not been reported.
  • (6) And these night scenes glow with subtle, vibrant colour.
  • (7) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
  • (8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (9) Plasma polymerized ethylene (PPE), styrene (PPS), and chlorotrifluoroethylene (PPCTFE) were synthesized by exposing the monomeric gases to an inductively coupled radio frequency "glow-discharge" field.
  • (10) We hope there is a post-Commonwealth Games glow with the home nations doing so well, but first and foremost it is an entertainment show."
  • (11) Under more drastic conditions (higher temperatures and flowing air), glow occurred in several instances resulting in an increased production oxidation products as represented by CO2, COS, SO2, HCOOH, and CH3COOH, among others.
  • (12) Investigations of the functions cited in the title were performed in 23 persons with a normal visual system in conditions of equal illumination, first the glow and the next day or later--the sodium one.
  • (13) These surface treatments allowed testing of the same basic material which was mill-finished, metallurgically polished, electrochemically oxidized, sintered with a porous surface, and glow-discharged.
  • (14) Hence the new "tradition" of each party leader producing a mute but glamorous wife for a postcoital glow after a speech.
  • (15) In fact, the numbers were much worse that predicted, and ensured the would be no post-convention glow for Obama.
  • (16) An attempt was made to graft the monomer HEMA to the polymer surface by "Glow discharge" technique.
  • (17) Referring to the spirit generated by the London Olympics, he said: "It would have been much more threatening to us if it had all been about the positive, warm glow of 2012, then the first world war commemorations – 300 years of kinship and family ties."
  • (18) The mountains are glowing red and it will be a good harvest,” she predicted.
  • (19) Everything is conforming nicely to my expectation that this will all be a disappointment, but then news comes of glowing press, a five-star review, bigger, louder buzz, and comparisons of the film with Billy Wilder and the screwball comedies of the 40s and 50s.
  • (20) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.