glowとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɡləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡloʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

動詞

glow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (一般的ではない用法) glew, past participle glowed or (一般的ではない用法) glown)

1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

   The fire was still glowing after ten hours.

2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.

   The zealots glowed with religious fervor.

   You are glowing from happiness!

   • 1669 June (first performance), John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1670, OCLC 228732431, Act II, scene iii, page 19:

     A fire which every windy paſſion blows; / With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.

   • 1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IX”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254:

     Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
4. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.

   Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

   After their workout, the gymnasts' faces were glowing red.

5. To shine brightly and steadily.

   The new baby's room glows with bright, loving colors.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

7. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 5]:

     Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

   • 1727, John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan

     The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

派生語

• glew
• outglow

関連する語

• gleed

名詞

glow (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 glows)

1. The state of a glowing object.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:

     The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.

2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

   He had a bright red glow on his face.

派生語