B2verb · transitive · rare

gleam

gleam · gleams · gleamed · gleaming

світитися

вспыхнуть, вспыхивать

schimmern, aufblitzen

Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause to shineChiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.

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UK/ɡliːm/US/ɡlim/

» Candles gleamed brightly beside the jacuzzi.

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Meaning

4 senses

(transitive)Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
to shine with faint or brief light
(intransitive)To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
schimmern
(figuratively, intransitive)To be strongly but briefly apparent.
aufblitzen
(intransitive, obsolete)Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.

Examples

34 sentences

Candles gleamed brightly beside the jacuzzi.
Scott · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
Still gleams an element of hope.
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The floor gleamed like a mirror.
ruПол блестел как зеркало. — Selena777
deDer Fußboden glänzte wie ein Spiegel. — al_ex_an_der
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The floor was gleaming like a mirror.
deDer Fußboden glänzte wie ein Spiegel. — al_ex_an_der
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The knight's armour gleamed in the sun.
ruДоспехи рыцаря блестели на солнце. — marafon
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Translations

2 languages

Deutsch

By meaning 2

to shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner — see also glisten, glitter:

to be strongly but briefly apparent:

Origin

From Middle English glemen (“to shine; to glance, look”) [and other forms], from glem, gle

From Middle English glemen (“to shine; to glance, look”) [and other forms], from glem, gleam (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Cognate with German Low German glemen (“to glow, shine”).

A variant of Middle English gleimen, gleym (“to smear; to make slimy or sticky; to fill up (the stomach); to nauseate; of a slimy or viscous substance: to be stuck together; (figuratively) to captivate, ensnare; to infect with heresy”) [and other forms], probably a blend of glet (“slimy or viscous matter produced by animals; mucus, phlegm; congestion of mucus or phlegm in the body; viscosity”), gleu (“substance used to stick things together, glue; viscous medicine made from plants”), etc. + Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”) (whence Old English clǣman (“to smear”)) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”), from *klaimaz (“clay; mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)).

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