sparkle
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kəl
- Homophone: SPARQL
Audio (UK): (file)
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark + -le (diminutive suffix).
Noun
sparkle (countable and uncountable, plural sparkles)
- A little spark; a scintillation.
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- As sparkles from the anvil rise, / When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed.
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- The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper.
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- Brilliance; luster.
- the sparkle of a diamond
- Liveliness; vivacity.
- the sparkle of his conversation over dinner
- The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English sparklen, spearclen, sperclen, equivalent to spark + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sparkelen (“to sparkle”).
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
- The wood was sparkling in the bonfire.
- (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
- The stars sparkle in the sky.
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- A mantelet upon his shoulder hanging Bretful of rubies red, as fire sparkling.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
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- I see bright honour sparkle through your eyes.
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- (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
- sparkling wine
- sparkling water
- (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
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- Did sparkle forth great light.
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- (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
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- The Landgrave hath sparkled his army without any further enterprise.
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- (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.
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References
- “sparkle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sparkle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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