Dictionary entry details
• SCINTILLATE (verb)
Meaning:
Give off
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Context example:
the substance scintillated sparks and flashes
Hypernyms (to "scintillate" is one way to...):
emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Reflect brightly
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
coruscate; sparkle; scintillate
Context example:
Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside
Hypernyms (to "scintillate" is one way to...):
reflect; shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
winkle; twinkle; scintillate
Context example:
Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
Hypernyms (to "scintillate" is one way to...):
beam; shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)
Domain category:
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
the phosphor fluoresced
Hypernyms (to "scintillate" is one way to...):
fluoresce (exhibit or undergo fluorescence)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
coruscate; sparkle; scintillate
Context examples:
The musical performance sparkled / A scintillating conversation / his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall
Hypernyms (to "scintillate" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
