Crossword clues for scintillate
scintillate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scintillate \Scin"til*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scintillated; p. pr. & vb. n. Scintillating.] [L. scintillare, scintillatum, from scintilla a spark. Cf. Stencil.]
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To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion.
--Sir W. Scott. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin scintillatus, past participle of scintillare "to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash," from scintilla "spark" (see scintilla). Related: Scintillated; scintillating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow. 2 (context transitive English) To throw off like sparks.
WordNet
v. give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" [syn: sparkle, coruscate]
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" [syn: twinkle, winkle]
physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced"
be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert hall" [syn: sparkle, coruscate]
Wikipedia
Scintillate (foaled 24 January 1976) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the classic Oaks Stakes in 1979. She showed promising form as a two-year-old although she failed to win in three races. After recording her first win in the Sandleford Priory Stakes in the following spring she won the Oaks as a 20/1 outsider. She ran poorly in two subsequent races and was retired to brood where she had limited success as a broodmare.
Usage examples of "scintillate".
It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.
You are aware, since you sent her, that Carol Endermann spent the last weekend in Centennial advising me of your gratification that the work was going so well and of your disappointment that I was sending you too few scintillating quotes and summary generalizations.
Seti had crossed the border into Goshen at daybreak and was now well into the grazing-lands, yet scintillating with the rain.
Warder, growling savagely, went along the back wall of the hut, and, despite the semi-darkness, his eyes scintillating with menace through the cracks drove from them a crouching figure who turned hastily to grip the axe near the myall logs.
With each scintillating whimper from the back of her throat, each angelic flutter of her kiss, each delicious tremble of her body against his hands, he was seduced himself.
Vineyard, or tilth where lies his husbandry, Fireflies innumerable sparkle: so to me, Come where its mighty depth unfolded, straight With flames no fewer seemed to scintillate The shades of the eighth pit.
In an eye blink it became a broad annulus of scintillating light around a disk of blackness now bespecked with stars.
Gold Ambon moved to the ramp and drew her into the scintillating folds of his robe as if to shield her from all harm.
This peace-lulled, beguiling, sea, teeming with myriad forms scintillating on the verge of nothingness--obscure, elusive, yet mighty in their wayward way--soothed with never so gentle, so dulcet a swaying.
A picture showed a long racy hull that scintillated against a background of stars.
One day they threw the ram field constriction wide open, andin free fall, protected from the oncoming gamma rays by the scintillating dome of the inner ram fieldthey moved the radon bombs back to their nests in the weapons pod.
It occurs to me, as I peel back the scented strip to whiff Trekker, that these magazine ads, scintillating as they are, would drive a bear insane.
It lay dimpling and scintillating beneath the noonday sun, as entirely unspoilt as fifteen years ago, when its pure loveliness was known only to trappers and Indians.
The tone-poems of Debussy and the ballets of Ravel and Strawinsky, the scintillating orchestral compositions of Strauss and Rimsky and Bloch, could scarcely have come to be had not Berlioz called the attention of the world to the instruments in which the colors and timbres in which it is steeped, lie dormant.
She opened it and saw a set of earclips hung with scintillating diamonds inside.