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shine up
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autofluorescence
outshine
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accidental
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glowingness
nitency
rayonné
semiexposed
radiatiform
lustrous
aflicker
brightness level
glistening
luminousness
luminance
fluorescent
flickering
brightness
light
luminosity
bright
shiny
brightening
burnished
shining
diffuseness
illuminative
twilight
subfulgent
gloom
glare
fugitive pigment
dissolve
shiner
burst
volley
stainability
phototonus
outblaze
nonluminosity
light-sensitive
muddy
fluoresce
muddied
exfoliative
suffuse
dingy
gunnysacking
dirty
flaring
aglimmer
shimmery
glimmery
twinkling
festerous
semiradiate
cold
lambent
thermochroic
aflare
rayonné
semiexposed
radiatiform
lustrous
aflicker
fluorescent
flickering
bright
shiny
burnished
shining
illuminative
subfulgent
light-sensitive
muddy
muddied
exfoliative
suffuse
dingy
dirty
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overglow
gloss
diffusivity
sparklingness
scintillescence
autofluorescence
lightness
accidental
glowingness
nitency
shimmer
brightness level
glistening
luminousness
luminance
brightness
light
luminosity
brightening
diffuseness
fugitive pigment
shiner
volley
stainability
phototonus
nonluminosity
gunnysacking
flaring
flash
blink
twinkle
winkle
wink
gleam
incandesce
shimmer
shine up
flick
flicker
glint
illumine
shine
flush
fade
flame
irradiate
flare
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glimmer
twilight
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fluoresce
verb
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
- Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- Having plenty of ready money.
- Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
noun
- A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
- A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
- A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
verb
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To become bright; to light up.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To reflect light.
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
noun
verb
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- cause to flow through something
- make level or straight
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
adj
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
adv
verb
- To cause to fade.
- To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
- To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
- To bet against.
- To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
- To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
noun
- A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
- The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
- A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).
- A fight.
- A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
verb
- To emit rays; to shine.
- To radiate, shed, or diffuse.
- To animate by heat or light.
- To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria.
- To decorate with shining ornaments.
- To illuminate; to brighten; to shine light on.
- To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate.
- To treat (a tumour or cancerous growth) with radiation.
adj
verb
- shine with a sudden light
- burn brightly
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- erupt or intensify suddenly
noun
- a shape that spreads outward
- a sudden burst of flame
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
- an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
- a sudden outburst of emotion
- a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
- a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
- (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
noun
- A surface shine or luster.
- A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
- An extensive commentary on some text.
- A glossary; a collection of such notes.
verb
adj
- Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Having a low temperature.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- Causing the air to be cold.
- Not radioactive.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- Cornered; done for.
- Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
adv
noun
noun
- Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
adj
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
adj
- Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
- Of or relating to fluorescence.
- Glowing as if with fluorescence; vivid
- Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
noun
noun
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- an illuminated area
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- having abundant light or illumination
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- public awareness
- a visual warning signal
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
adj
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- characterized by or emitting light
- of little intensity or power or force
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
adj
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- very thin and insubstantial
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- having little importance
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- silly or trivial
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- having relatively few calories
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
verb
- introduce light into
- begin to smoke
- to come to rest, settle
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- alight from (a horse)
- start or maintain a fire in
adv
adj
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- having strong or striking color
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- having lots of light either natural or artificial
- splendid
- clear and sharp and ringing
- characterized by happiness or gladness
- likely to turn out well in the future
adj
adv
verb
adj
noun
- Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
verb
- cause to fade away
- grow less and less substantial until it disappears
- cause to go into a solution
- come to an end
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
- cause to lose control emotionally
- lose control emotionally
- pass into a solution
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- declare void
noun
noun
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
verb
- To produce as an effect of bursting.
- To cause to break from internal pressure.
- To break from internal pressure.
- To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
- To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
noun
adj
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
- vile; despicable
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- violating accepted standards or rules
- unethical or dishonest
- unpleasantly stormy
adj
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
verb
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