Definition of "glow"

glow

/ɡləʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (nonstandard) glew, past participle glowed or (nonstandard) glown
1. To emit light as if heated.
2. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
3. To display intense emotion.
  Quotations
  A fire which every windy paſſion blows; / With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
  1669 June (first performance), John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1670, Act II, scene iii, page 19
  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
  1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IX”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […]
4. To gaze especially passionately at something.
5. To shine brightly and steadily.
  Quotations
  Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
  Quotations
  Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
7. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  Quotations
  Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
  1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, Act I, scene iii, page 5
  The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
  1727, John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan
8. (intransitive, Internet slang) To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
  Quotations
  If this post glows any brighter I'm going to need sunglasses. 😄🕶👌
  2018 August 26, anonymous author, “Cryptographic crumpling: The encryption 'middle ground' for government surveillance”, in alt.privacy‎ (Usenet)
9. (Internet slang, alt-right) to expose someone to the authorities.
10. (Internet slang, alt-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural glows
1. The light given off by a glowing object.
  Quotations
  Thus all that Art and Con had to do, when the night was favourable, was to advance a little way along the avenue, until they reached the place whence the light, if it was burning, must be visible, as a glow, a feeble glow, in the air, and thence to go on, towards the back door, or to go back, towards the gate, as the case might be.
  1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press
  The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
  Quotations
  O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,⁠Who changest not in any gale,⁠Nor branding summer suns availTo touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto II

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