What's the difference between glinting and grinting?
Glinting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glint
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.
Grinting
Definition:
(n.) Grinding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grint follows his Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe by stepping onstage in a role far removed from Hogwarts.
(2) Harry Potter graduates Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are among the nominees shortlisted for the only major UK theatre awards voted for entirely by the public.
(3) Rupert Grint is to make his first stage appearance in an all-star West End revival of Jez Butterworth 's hit debut, Mojo.
(4) Radcliffe had previously said he and his co-stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson would probably not be returning to Hogwarts for Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Harry, Ron and Hermione at the magical school.
(5) After all, armies of reporters were assigned to chronicle every drink, scrap, falling out, romance, rumour in the lives of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint.
(6) Of the three leads – himself, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint – who does he think was the best actor?
(7) Watson once told the chat show host Jonathan Ross that Grint and Radcliffe “really are like my siblings”.
(8) Co-star Rupert Grint came just behind her in 15th position.
(9) The passengers listed Princess Beatrice Howard Donald Sam Mendes Jason Orange Charlize Theron Coleen Rooney Matt Lucas Paul Merton Russell Brand Richard E Grant James May and Jeremy Clarkson Debbie Harry Jeremy Kyle Kate Winslet Denise van Outen Michael McIntyre Matt Le Tissier Yasmin Le Bon Lennox Lewis Julia Ormond Lily Cole Rihanna Colin Farrell Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Rupert Grint Anna Friel Daniel Radcliffe Glenn Hoddle Amanda Holden Belinda Carlisle 'Madonna's kids' Madonna Alan Carr Michael Madsen Eva Longoria Len Goodman Nigel Havers Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen Joan Collins Fergie (Black Eyed Peas singer) Taio Cruz Hugh Dancy Jared Leto Mel B Graham Norton Rob Brydon Ross Kemp Trevor and Sharon Eve Jonathan Ross Tamer Hassan Kelly Osbourne Dom Joly Amanda Redman Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) Serena Williams Jack Osbourne Katherine Jackson Neve Campbell Ralph Fiennes
(10) The trio at the centre of the Harry Potter franchise – Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint – have, in fact, each fared well.
(11) Grint, making his stage debut as the endearingly dim Sweets in Mojo, is nominated in the London newcomer of the year.
(12) Speaking at a press event for the new Sky Arts series A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories , Radcliffe confirmed he and his co-stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson would probably not be returning to Hogwarts for Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Harry, Ron and Hermione at the magical school.
(13) Not only does he have a career he adores, he is worth an estimated £60m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List (more than double either Watson or Grint), making him the 10th wealthiest person under 30 in the UK.
(14) Was he scrutinised more than Watson or Grint because he was Harry?