different between gleam vs glossiness
gleam
English
Etymology
- (noun) From Middle English gleme, from Old English glæm, from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ley-.
- (verb) Derived from the Middle English noun form before the first millennium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
gleam (plural gleams)
- A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
- Synonyms: beam, ray
- (figuratively) A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.
- Synonyms: flicker, glimmer, trace
- Brightness or shininess; splendor.
- Synonyms: dazzle, lambency, shine
Translations
Verb
gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed) (intransitive)
- To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
- Synonyms: glint, sparkle, glow, shine
- To be briefly but strongly apparent.
- Synonyms: flare, flash, kindle
- (obsolete, falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Translations
See also
- leam
References
- “gleam”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- “gleam” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "gleam" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.
- "gleam" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
- Gamel, megal-
gleam From the web:
- what gleams
- what gleams are made of black paparazzi
- what gleaming mean
- what gleams are made of black
- what gleams are made of copper paparazzi
- what gems are made of black bracelet
- what gleams are made of brass
- what gleam does
glossiness
English
Etymology
glossy +? -ness
Noun
glossiness (countable and uncountable, plural glossinesses)
- The state of being glossy.
glossiness From the web:
- what is glossiness map
- what means glossiness
- what does glossiness means
- what is specular glossiness
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