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sparkle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sparkle \Spar"kle\, v. t.
To emit in the form or likeness of sparks. ``Did sparkle
forth great light.''
--Spenser.
Sparkle \Spar"kle\, n. [Dim. of spark.]
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A little spark; a scintillation.
As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is.
--Chaucer.The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper.
--Prescott. Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
Sparkle \Spar"kle\, v. t. [Cf. Sparble.]
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To disperse. [Obs.]
The Landgrave hath sparkled his army without any further enterprise.
--State Papers. To scatter on or over. [Obs.]
--Purchas.
Sparkle \Spar"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sparkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sparkling.] [See Sparkle, n., Spark of fire.]
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To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
A mantelet upon his shoulder hanging Bretful of rubies red, as fire sparkling.
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To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
I see bright honor sparkle through your eyes.
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To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.
Syn: To shine; glisten; scintillate; radiate; coruscate; glitter; twinkle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A little spark; a scintillation. 2 brilliance; luster. Etymology 2
alt. (context intransitive English) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle. vb. (context intransitive English) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
WordNet
n. brightness and animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye" [syn: spark, light]
the occurrence of a small flash or spark [syn: glitter, coruscation]
the quality of glittering or sparkling brightly [syn: glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation]
v. reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" [syn: scintillate, coruscate]
be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert hall" [syn: scintillate, coruscate]
emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark" [syn: spark]
form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, fizz, effervesce]
Wikipedia
Sparkle may refer to:
- Spark (fire), an incandescent particle
- Sparkle (catamaran), a catamaran designed by Angus Primrose
- Sparkle (drink), a lemon-flavored soft drink
- Sparkle, California, in Contra Costa County
- Sparkle, a brand of paper towels owned by Georgia-Pacific
- Sparkle Plenty, a character in the Dick Tracy comic strip
- Sparkle (charity), a transgender rights charity
- Sparkle (❇), a form of dingbat
- Sparkle (actress)
Sparkle is a 1976 American musical drama film directed by Sam O'Steen and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Inspired by The Supremes, Sparkle is a period film set in Harlem, New York during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It presents the story of a musical girl group that ends up breaking apart due to individual issues each one faces. This film not only "recreates the magic of special a special period in American history, but it explores the impact of Harlem's musical and social culture on the rest of the world," as well as the linkages to black power.
The film stars Irene Cara, Philip Michael Thomas, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood, and Tony King. Curtis Mayfield served as the composer and producer of Sparkle's songs and score.
Stephanie Edwards (born May 13, 1975), better known as Sparkle is an American R&B singer. She began her career in 1998 as a protégé of R. Kelly. She is best known for her debut hit single " Be Careful".
Sparkle is a lemon-flavored soft drink that was created by the Coca-Cola Company for the islands of Luzon and Visayas in the Philippines which successfully competed with Mountain Dew as it has a very similar taste. Sparkle is sold in many stores in the Philippines and is a very popular kids drink.
Music from the Warner Bros. Picture "Sparkle" is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. Released on May 27, 1976, the disc is the soundtrack album for the 1976 Warner Bros. motion picture Sparkle, starring Irene Cara. The songs on the soundtrack feature the instrumental tracks and backing vocals from the film versions, with Franklin's voice taking the place of the original lead vocalists.
Despite mixed reviews, this album returned Aretha to gold status after two failed albums. The first single release, " Something He Can Feel", was a #1 R&B hit for her and reached #28 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, it was Aretha's only Pop Top 40 hit during the second half of the 1970s. The album itself reached the Top 20 of Billboard's main album chart and was certified Gold for US sales of over 500,000 copies. In 2009, it was reissued on Rhino Records' budget Flashback Records label. The songs "(Giving Him) Something He Can Feel" and "Hooked on Your Love" were covered by En Vogue on their 1992 multi-platinum hit album Funky Divas.
Sparkle is an open source software framework for OS X designed to simplify updating software for the end user of a program. Sparkle's primary means of distributing updates is through "appcasting," a term coined for the practice of using an RSS enclosure to distribute updates and release notes.
At the end of 2013, development of Sparkle was ended by the original author, then later picked up by the newly formed Sparkle Project open source group on GitHub in June 2014 as the official continuation of the project.
Sparkle is a 2007 British comedy film written and directed by Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter and was shot on location in London, Liverpool and the Isle of Man.
Sparkle is a charity based in the United Kingdom that is best known for organising the annual Sparkle Weekend in Manchester, which aims to celebrate the transgender community. The event claims to be the world's largest transgender event.
Sparkle was a substantial catamaran designed by Angus Primrose, the designer of Gipsy Moth IV, to be sailed by an able bodied skipper and crewed by people of limited physical ability and mobility. It was based partially at Ravens Ait on the Thames at Surbiton in Surrey. It was designed to allow physically handicapped people the chance to sail a boat themselves
It featured a large open cockpit suitable for wheelchair access, with tether points for the crew to use. It was almost certainly the first purpose built sailing boat for disabled sailors to use.
Sparkle was a major project in the 1970s of the SPARKS Charity
Sparkle is the self-titled debut album by R&B singer, Sparkle. It was released on May 20, 1998 through Interscope Records and was entirely produced by her mentor R. Kelly. The album was a success in large part to the Sparkle-R. Kelly duet "Be Careful", which peaked at 3 on the Rhythmic Top 40 and 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. The album itself peaked at 3 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum on December 7, 2000.
In addition to "Be Careful", "Time to Move On" and "Lovin' You" were also released as singles, but neither made it to the Billboard charts.
Entertainment Weekly (6/19/98, p. 74) - "Unlike her wannabe-diva peers, this R. Kelly protegee remembers what the 'B' in R&B stands for....R. Kelly surrounds her with blaxploitation-vintage wah-wah guitars, haunting strings, and blue-collar blues; the resulting soul digs far deeper than Kelly's usual bump'n' grind..." - Rating: B+
Sparkle is an American musical film directed by Salim Akil and produced by Stage 6 Films, It was released on August 17, 2012 by TriStar Pictures. Inspired by The Supremes, Sparkle is a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, which centered on three singing teenage sisters from Harlem who form a girl group in the late 1950s. The remake takes place in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s during the Motown era.
The film stars Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, Whitney Houston, Mike Epps, Cee Lo Green, Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter, Tamela Mann and Omari Hardwick. Sparkle features songs from the original film written by soul musician Curtis Mayfield as well as new compositions by R&B artist R. Kelly. This film is the debut of R&B/ pop singer and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks as an actress. Sparkle also marks Whitney Houston's fifth and final feature film role before her death in February 11, 2012, three months after filming ended. The film is dedicated to her memory.
Rachel "Sparkle" Glusman ( April 14, 1915 - October 6, 2005) was an American actress.
Born in the Russian Empire, the 4' 2" actress came to the United States with her family and worked in show business on a free lance basis while raising a family. Glusman was a background and unaccredited actress for many years which is why there is little credit or history for much of her work. She became popular in her later years playing 'old lady' characters in a few contemporary movies like Dirty Deeds (2005), Wedding Crashers (2005), Man on Fire (2004) and Big Fat Liar (2002).
She received her first credit in Troop Beverly Hills in 1989 as R. Sparkle Stillman and went on to play bit parts in 18 other movies.
Immediately following the filming of Dirty Deeds, she died in her sleep of natural causes in Los Angeles in October 2005.
Category:1915 births Category:2005 deaths
Usage examples of "sparkle".
Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage--clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots--we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths.
They crossed a noble old bridge with seven spans, water sparkling and shimmering below, and passed under the archway of the ring wall.
Even toward the end of the night performance, no artiste let himself or herself look anything but sparkling and vivacious to the audience, and none of them bungled a single trick in any act.
Savage in a powder-blue suit with shoulder pads which would not have disgraced an American foot baller She was firmly ensconced in the one easy chair, basking in a pale ray of sunlight which cut across the room and which made her earrings sparkle.
The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.
Walker with everything they had, the barrage of lead making a leg buckle, and then the video lens exploded into sparkling trash.
The sparkles in his black silk shirt caught the light, adding to the glow his blurring wings put out.
The flesh was weary, the spirit faint, and I was getting out of humor with the bustling busy throng through which I had to struggle, when in a fit of desperation I tore my way through the crowd, plunged into a by-lane, and, after passing through several obscure nooks and angles, emerged into a quaint and quiet court with a grassplot in the centre overhung by elms, and kept perpetually fresh and green by a fountain with its sparkling jet of water.
The driver of the horseless carriage lifted wide goggles and removed a full hat covered with veiling to reveal shining, dark hair and a pert nose between sparkling, blue eyes.
Miss Mallow was struck dumb, upon opening it, to see a fine set of matched diamonds sparkling at her.
Another fish jumped and fell back with cascading sparkles that reminded Maria of jewels.
The table had been set with a sparkling white tablecloth and Passover dishes, matzah and bitter herbs and Avruhm read from the Haggadah in Hebrew.
One of them was wearing a diamond chain around her bare midriff, which sparkled in the orange streetlights.
Palaisso Millia Luminnai, and kissed her in the moonlit gardenshe could see that, too, from the sparkle of his epalettos to the coronet of a Princess of Ghillas that bound her hair.
The doctors and nurses on the screen wore spotless white, had coiffed hair, perfect faces, and teeth that radiated a mucoid sparkle as they conversed in slow, low, earnest tones about love, hate, anguish and death.