What does glow mean?
Glow means To emit heat and light without a flame..
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/ɡləʊ/ · verb
To emit heat and light without a flame..
Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
The mettled Steeds, vvhen from their Noſtrils flovvs / The ſcorching Fire, that in their Entrails glovvs.
To-night will I pure Magian be, / Hymns to thy [a fire's] sole honor raising, / While thou leapest fast and faster, / Wild with self-delighted glee, / Or sink'st low and glowest faintly / As an aureole still and saintly, / Keeping cadence to my praising / Thee! still thee! and only thee!
The Sun, how it gloweth, all day gloweth down, / On the gray of thy turrets, O wonderful town!
[N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]
The Temple ſhakes, the ſounding Gates unfold, / VVide Vaults appear, and Roofs of fretted Gold: / […] / Of bright, tranſparent Beryl vvere the VValls, / The Freezes Gold, and Gold the Capitals: / As Heaven vvith Stars, the Roof vvith Jevvels glovvs, / And ever living Lamps depend in Rovvs.
[T]he torrid Zone / Glovvs vvith the paſſing and repaſſing Sun.
Use glow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glow means To emit heat and light without a flame..
Common synonyms include gleam, beam, radiate, radiance.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
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