glint

Definitions


[ɡlɪnt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- give out or reflect small flashes of light
(e.g: her glasses glinted in the firelight)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘move quickly or obliquely’): variant of dialect glent, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish dialect glänta, glinta ‘to slip, slide, gleam’


[ɡlɪnt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small flash of light, especially a reflected one
(e.g: the glint of gold in his teeth)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘move quickly or obliquely’): variant of dialect glent, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish dialect glänta, glinta ‘to slip, slide, gleam’




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