What's the difference between glow and grow?

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.

Grow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
  • (v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
  • (v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.
  • (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
  • (v. i.) To become attached of fixed; to adhere.
  • (v. t.) To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
  • (2) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (3) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
  • (4) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (6) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
  • (7) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
  • (8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (10) The rate of nuclei stained by Pr-122 is different from that of Pr-192 in both growing and quiescent cultures.
  • (11) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
  • (12) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (13) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
  • (14) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
  • (15) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
  • (16) In our work with bacteriophage T4, we observed that several T4 am mutants could grow on JM105.
  • (17) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
  • (18) In WI-38, a normal human fibroblast, the rates of degradation of short lived and long lived proteins are identical whether the cultures are growing exponentially or are density-inhibited.
  • (19) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
  • (20) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.