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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glint
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glint/hint of mischief (=an expression that shows someone wants to play tricks)
▪ There was a glint of mischief in her eyes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ Although the sun glinted off its scales, Rincewind could clearly make out the outlines of the branches behind it.
▪ At the top of the sky, everything glittered, the sun glinting off metal and concrete.
▪ The sun glinted off a gold band on his left hand.
■ NOUN
sun
▪ Picture the belt down across his chest with the sun glinting on the bullets that filled most of the loops.
▪ At the top of the sky, everything glittered, the sun glinting off metal and concrete.
▪ The building. although still basically ugly, looked nicer with the late April sun glinting on the old stonework.
▪ The light from the setting sun glinted on the brass-tone doorknob.
▪ Although the sun glinted off its scales, Rincewind could clearly make out the outlines of the branches behind it.
▪ The sun glinted off a gold band on his left hand.
▪ It was hard to tell because of the sun glinting on his glasses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Derek's eyes glinted when he saw the money.
▪ His badge glinted in the evening sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her eyes glinted through round wire. framed glasses.
▪ In his hands she saw something glint and realised it was a knife.
▪ Jewelled cups, their precious stones glinting in the sunlight, and silver dishes were laid out on handsome chests and cabinets.
▪ The buckles glinted in the sun.
▪ The knife glinted and the keg fell away cleanly.
▪ We are back with Miss Miniver, her glasses glinting in the firelight.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
catch
▪ Meredith caught the glint of gold in the thread.
▪ I often caught the glint in his eye as he kept ever alert, staring at my face.
see
▪ Have some trifle, Bina - I can see the glint in your eyes.
▪ One had slipped out of an alley in front of him; he saw the glint of a knife.
▪ Barton saw a few metallic glints at great distance.
▪ She saw the glint of a silver helmet and the slender figure of a Woman.
▪ Twice, he saw the glint of metal and once, when the cannon fell silent, he heard distant voices.
▪ Even from here she could see the glint of gold braid.
▪ He looked at Nigel Steen and saw the glint of tears in his eyes as the young man rushed out of the door.
▪ I could see the dull glint of the gun in the open drawer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I saw the glint of hope in her eyes.
▪ the glint of his gold watch
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there was a glint of green and gold still in them, and their eyes were pain-filled, but determined.
▪ Here and there a darker bundle and a glint of jewelry.
▪ I often caught the glint in his eye as he kept ever alert, staring at my face.
▪ It seemed friendly, but she detected in it some glint of appraisal or judgment.
▪ Langford received the gaze of his wide-set, sightless brown eyes, from which all glint of humor was gone.
▪ She objected to his formal jargon, although she imagined a glint of amusement accompanying it.
▪ Their hearts might be heavy, but there's a glint on the horizon, a new sun rising.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glint

Glint \Glint\ (gl[i^]nt), n. [OE. glent.] A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] ``He saw a glint of light.''
--Ramsay.

Glint

Glint \Glint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting.] [OE. glenten. Cf. Glance, v. i., Glitter, v. i.] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
--Burns.

Glint

Glint \Glint\, v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
glint

1540s (modern use from 1826), from glint (v.).

glint

1787, from Scottish, where apparently it survived as an alteration of Middle English glenten "gleam, flash, glisten" (mid-15c.), from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian gletta "to look," dialectal Swedish glinta "to shine"), from Proto-Germanic *glent-, from PIE *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass). Reintroduced into literary English by Burns. Related: Glinted; glinting.

Wiktionary
glint

n. A short flash of light. vb. 1 To flash briefly. 2 To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.

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WordNet
glint

  1. n. a momentary flash of light [syn: flicker, spark]

  2. a spatially localized brightness

  3. v. be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, gleam, shine]

  4. throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting" [syn: glance, peek]

Wikipedia
Glint

Glint is an American project founded in 2003 by Jase Blankfort. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Blankfort is accompanied by Anders Fleming. The band has since signed to Votiv and announced their new album Inverter, out March 11, 2016.

Usage examples of "glint".

Round the corner of the narrow street there came rushing a brace of whining dogs with tails tucked under their legs, and after them a white-faced burgher, with outstretched hands and wide-spread fingers, his hair all abristle and his eyes glinting back from one shoulder to the other, as though some great terror were at his very heels.

It was as if the Southern Welt had been emptied in its entirety, and sunlight glinted off the armor that some of the Aerians were strong enough to bear in full flight.

Despite a room full of people, she always had a glint in her eyes that belonged only to him.

An Arcadian Niphetos Pardalia, or snow leopard, the woman had a glint in her eye that reminded everyone there that women were far more bloodthirsty than the men.

The Archdeacon, glinting rather like a small, frosty pool, took it and opened it.

Tycho was an argumentative soul who, once, in a duel, had the end of his nose snipped off, and thereafter always had to appear in public with a neat silver tip glinting in the light.

It arose above the vapor and hovered for a moment, the moons glinting on its fusilage.

He glanced around the room helplessly a moment, then his eyes settled on Bender, drawing down to a steely glint.

The caiman stared at Nate between the roots, mouth gaping open, teeth glinting with menace.

Where he and his men were better known, a glimpse of their crimson capes was enough to make strong men blanch, and the glint off their polished armor was enough to make an enemy break and run.

Some had been cooler than others, Centaine reflected with a steely glint in her eye as she picked them out amongst the crowd, and she would remember them.

They stood at the transparency and watched the light of Alpha Centauri A glint off the flanks of the Crucian ships.

We were in a small bay then, its shores a dark sweep of sediment, grey slopes streaked with black and the metallic glints of cuprous green.

Veda, with a sly glint in her eyes, held her hand out to Darr Veter and lie lifted her out of the Lushes with an easy movement.

In the middle of this picture stood the Mardian dolmen, unencumbered now, glinting with frost as if, incongruously, it had been tinselled for the occasion.