Gleam vs. Twinkle
Difference Between Gleam and Twinkle
Gleam➦
A brief beam or flash of light
saw gleams of daylight through the cracks.
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Twinkle➦
To shine with slight, intermittent gleams, as distant lights or stars; flicker; glimmer.
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Gleam➦
A steady but subdued shining; a glow
the gleam of burnished gold.
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Twinkle➦
To be bright or sparkling, as with merriment or delight
eyes that twinkled with joy.
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Gleam➦
A brief or dim indication; a trace
a gleam of intelligence.
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Twinkle➦
To blink or wink the eyes.
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Gleam➦
To emit a gleam; flash or glow
"Their tile roofs gleamed in the moon's pallid radiance" (Laura Joh Rowland).
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Twinkle➦
To move about or to and fro rapidly and gracefully; flit.
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Gleam➦
To be reflected as a gleam
The sun gleamed on the water.
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Twinkle➦
To emit (light) in slight, intermittent gleams.
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Gleam➦
To be manifested or indicated briefly or faintly.
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Twinkle➦
A slight, intermittent gleam of light; a sparkling flash; a glimmer.
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Gleam➦
(countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
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Twinkle➦
A sparkle of merriment or delight in the eye.
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Gleam➦
An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.
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Twinkle➦
A brief interval; a twinkling.
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Gleam➦
A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
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Twinkle➦
A rapid to-and-fro movement.
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Gleam➦
A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
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Twinkle➦
(of a source of light) To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.
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Gleam➦
(obsolete)
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Twinkle➦
To be bright with delight.
His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
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Gleam➦
(countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
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Twinkle➦
To bat, blink or wink the eyes.
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Gleam➦
(uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
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Twinkle➦
To flit to and fro.
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Gleam➦
(transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
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Twinkle➦
A sparkle or glimmer of light.
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Gleam➦
(intransitive)
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Twinkle➦
A sparkle of delight in the eyes.
He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.
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Gleam➦
To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
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Twinkle➦
A flitting movement.
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Gleam➦
(figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
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Twinkle➦
(colloquial) A brief moment; a twinkling.
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Gleam➦
Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
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Twinkle➦
(childish) The female genitalia.
The popular Swedish cartoon song about genitals was translated as "Willie and Twinkle".
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Gleam➦
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
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Twinkle➦
To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
The owl fell a moping and twinkling.
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Gleam➦
To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
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Twinkle➦
To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
The western sky twinkled with stars.
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Gleam➦
To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
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Twinkle➦
A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye,The damsel broke his misintended dart.
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Gleam➦
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.
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Twinkle➦
A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
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Gleam➦
A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Transient unexpected gleams of joi.
At last a gleamOf dawning light turned thitherward in hasteHis [Satan's] traveled steps.
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.
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Twinkle➦
The time of a wink; a twinkling.
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Gleam➦
Brightness; splendor.
In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
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Twinkle➦
a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
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Gleam➦
an appearance of reflected light
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Twinkle➦
gleam or glow intermittently;
The lights were flashing
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Gleam➦
a flash of light (especially reflected light)
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Twinkle➦
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner;
Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
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Gleam➦
be shiny, as if wet;
His eyes were glistening
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Gleam➦
shine brightly, like a star or a light
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Gleam➦
appear briefly;
A terrible thought gleamed in her mind
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