单词 | scintillating |
释义 | scintillatingadj. 1. a. literal. That exhibits scintillation; emitting sparks; twinkling, sparkling. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > glittering or sparkling sparkling?c1225 glising1340 glimmeringa1375 glistening1388 glistering1398 glitteringa1400 coruscantc1485 twinkling1508 flankering1577 fire-darting1594 glitterous1596 scintillant1611 winkinga1616 micant1657 scintillating1664 spangling1665 besparklinga1674 skinkling1790 spunky1791 micacious1797 glistery1806 spark-like1814 spangly1818 emicatious1819 sparky1827 aglitter1828 ablaze1851 aglist1858 scintillescent1860 aglisten1867 glittery1880 twinkly1884 sparkly1922 1664 M. Mackaile Moffet-well 46 The saltish and scintillating stones of the Well. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Scintillating, sending forth sparks, sparkling as the stars. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 33 Cold from each point cerulean lustres gleam, Or shoot in air the scintillating stream. 1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi i. 9 A scintillating flame darted from the cieling to the floor. 1889 Argosy Dec. 448 She threw the scintillating diamonds in a heap on the bed. 1927 Sci. News-let. 4 June 363/3 Little scintillating star, Shall I tell you what you are? 1952 Proc. Physical Soc. B. 65 320 An investigation of the pulse heights produced by alpha-particles in various scintillating crystals. 2001 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 59 246/1 There is a bolt of lightning and the room is full of scintillating sparks. b. Medicine. Of (a) scotoma or hemianopsia, typically when occurring in migraine: accompanied by a sensation of shimmering or flashing light. ΚΠ 1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Apr. 365/1 The singular zigzag scintillating spectrum described by many patients as following the obliteration of a portion of the visual field.] 1878 A. S. Morton tr. X. Galezowski in Lancet 19 Jan. 84/2 The scintillating hemiopia [Fr. hémiopie scintillante] is almost always followed by a headache. 1883 W. B. Hadden tr. J. M. Charcot Lect. Localisation Cerebral & Spinal Dis. xi. 122 A particular form of megrim..characterised especially by the co-existence of scintillating scotoma. 1918 J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye (ed. 3) xix. 384 Scintillating scotomata of various kinds occur in migraine... A positive scotoma appears in the field of vision; while obscuring sight it has a peculiar shimmering character. 1958 Jrnl. Chronic Dis. 8 437 The picture is extremely diverse, and the following may be recognized:..blurred vision, tunnel vision, partial or complete blindness, scintillating scotomata, [etc.]. 1987 Jrnl. Family Pract. 24 591 The typical patient..complains of scintillating visual disturbances..or a myriad of neurologic deficits. 2002 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Oct. 882/1 A third of people with migraine sometimes or always have aura before headache—hemianopic disturbance or a spreading scintillating scotoma. c. Physics. Of a particle, esp. a subatomic one: giving rise to scintillation when passing through or used in a suitable detector. ΚΠ 1903 Proc. Royal Soc. 71 408 I attribute the arrest of the scintillating particles to their electrical character. 1998 Physics Lett. B 420 113/1 To efficiently separate the strongly scintillating particles, like the electrons emitted in double beta decay, from the poorly scintillating α-particles. 2010 B. A. Moyer Ion Exchange & Solvent Extraction ix. 537 Sr-Resin particles were intimately mixed with solid scintillating particles to make a composite bed column with 90Sr sensing properties. 2. figurative. Of a person, or his or her writing, speech, etc.: sparkling, brilliant; lively and witty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [adjective] > bright, sparkling bright1619 sparkling1701 scintillating1793 scintillous1826 feather-heeled1840 pétillant1902 1793 Monthly Rev. Mar. 303 Scintillating flashes of wit. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 370 All the scintillating effects of real wit, and brilliancy in conversation. 1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 364/2 Professor Wilson's humour is broad, overwhelming, riotously opulent—Lamb's is minute, delicate, and scintillating. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 401 It is a very inferior task to extract statements from a thousand writers, and then to piece them together into a sort of scintillating mosaic. 1927 Amer. Mercury May 1/2 The scintillating salesmen of super-efficient educational rolling-mills. 1966 ‘O. Mills’ Enemies of Bride iv. 47 I produced a scintillating piece of non-fiction called..Elizabethan Domestic Drama. 1973 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 4 May 22/4 Lee Zierolf won more than 300 basketball games in his scintillating 21-year tenure. 2001 Heat 17 Nov. 118/2 The best chat show host in the world provides more scintillating conversation. Compounds scintillating screen n. Physics = scintillation screen n. at scintillation n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1903 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 15 Dec. 1310/2 Scintillating screens, left for some time in a dark place, one glued against glass and the other naked, shewed afterwards phosphorescence, but not scintillation. 1970 I. E. McCarthy Nucl. Reactions i. i. 3 When a particle hit a scintillating screen it caused a flash of light. 2008 Sci. News 11 Oct. 8/2 After entering the tunnel, the beam [of protons] twice struck a scintillating screen, causing atoms in the screen to emit light. Derivatives ˈscintillatingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adverb] > in a sparkling manner scintillously1509 twinklingly1561 glisteringly1587 glisteningly1611 glitteringly1611 sparklingly1669 scintillant1737 a-sparkle1840 spark-like1845 scintillatingly1875 aglisten1883 scintillantly1887 aglitter1913 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [adverb] wittily1553 conceitedly1606 pointedly1667 smartly1673 scintillatingly1927 1875 Northern Echo 28 Oct. 4/4 Bohemian Elegancies scintillatingly beautiful, Electro-Plate supremely brilliant.., and 1,242 other Witcheries. 1927 Sunday Express 6 Feb. 4 A scintillatingly funny burlesque. 2011 J. M. Kearns Shopping for Mr. Right i. 18 She found him scintillatingly manly in wonderful ways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1664 |
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