glowとは

発音

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

動詞

glow (三人称単数 現在形 glows, 現在分詞 glowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 glowed)

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!

   • Dryden

     With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.

   • Alexander Pope

     Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
4. 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.
   • Shakespeare

     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.
   • Addison

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

   • John Gay

     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

アナグラム

• gowl, w.l.o.g., wlog