GLOWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glowing mean? 

• GLOWING (noun)
  The noun GLOWING has 1 sense:

1. the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

  Familiarity information: GLOWING used as a noun is very rare.

• GLOWING (adjective)
  The adjective GLOWING has 1 sense:

1. highly enthusiastic

  Familiarity information: GLOWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

glow; glowing; radiance

Hypernyms ("glowing" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glowing"):

aureole; corona (the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse)

• GLOWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly enthusiastic

Context example:

glowing praise

Similar:

enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)

 Context examples 

We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Perhaps curiosity might have conquered resentment, if Beth had not been there to inquire and receive a glowing description of the play.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A planetary nebula is an expanding shell of glowing gas expelled by a star late in its life.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

The light side of a galaxy, the glowing stars and gas that we can see, accounts for only a couple of tens of percent of the total mass.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their observations revealed glowing bands in Saturn’s northern and southern hemispheres where the magnetic field lines that intersect the ring plane enter the planet.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

We see normal matter as brightly shining stars, glowing gas and clouds of dust.

(Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe, ESO)

This area of your chart, the eighth house, is the one glowing for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He noticed her face harden, but it was with the hardness of resolution, for still the soft color was in her cheeks and she was all glowing and melting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

However, based on the amount of glowing hydrogen gas contained in the tail, the team had expected Hubble to uncover three times more stars than it detected.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

From below the two glowing ends of their cigars might have been the smouldering eyes of some malignant fiend looking down in the darkness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)