glowing adj

1 softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous]

2 highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise" n : the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ

Verb

glowing

1. present participle of glow

Noun

1. The action of the verb to glow.

Adjective

1. That glows or glow.

   glowing embers

2. Full of praise.

   He received glowing references from his previous employers.

Translations

• Dutch: gloeiend
• Finnish: hohtava (1), hehkuva (1)
• French: luisant, brillant
• German: glühend

References

External links

• Phosphorescence on Scienceworld
• The Cathode Ray Tube site
• Glow in the Dark Paint and Powder
• Glow in the Dark (Phosphorescent) Technologies
• Glow in the Dark Project Forum

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