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Definition of coruscate in English: coruscateverb ˈkɒrəskeɪt [no object]literary (of light) flash or sparkle. 〈诗/文〉闪烁；闪耀 the light was coruscating through the walls 灯光穿过墙壁闪烁着。 Example sentencesExamples - The novel fairly coruscates with all that goes to make a good crime thriller.’
- Finally, as the blazing star appeared high over the island, the glow coruscated into incredible brilliance and began the nightly display.
- A diamond coruscates because it has the capacity for ‘total internal reflection’, meaning that it is able to completely reflect all the light that falls upon it from a particular direction.
- Dark lightning coruscated around James' hands as the point of light rose up into the air.
- A brilliant teenager is pampered by the English Golf Union, is accepted at an American university, where he coruscates, returns home and is virtually an overnight success.
Synonyms shining, light, brilliant, vivid, blazing, dazzling, beaming, intense, glaring
Derivativesnoun kɒrəˈskeɪʃ(ə)n literary The stars had come out and the fireworks that announced the Festival were flying up in the sky and littering the big black nothing with flambeau and coruscation. Example sentencesExamples - A single blue and single red spasm of coruscation flickered on either side of the dragon.
- The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
- What part of her father may have been human in form was entirely obscured by the coruscations of white light which, whether by accident or design, accompanied him.
- A coruscation of faces recalls the Malthusian horrors of the early 20 th-century Belgian artist James Ensor.
OriginEarly 18th century: from Latin coruscat- 'glittered', from the verb coruscare. Definition of coruscate in US English: coruscateverb [no object]literary (of light) flash or sparkle. 〈诗/文〉闪烁；闪耀 the light was coruscating from the walls 灯光穿过墙壁闪烁着。 Example sentencesExamples - Finally, as the blazing star appeared high over the island, the glow coruscated into incredible brilliance and began the nightly display.
- The novel fairly coruscates with all that goes to make a good crime thriller.’
- Dark lightning coruscated around James' hands as the point of light rose up into the air.
- A diamond coruscates because it has the capacity for ‘total internal reflection’, meaning that it is able to completely reflect all the light that falls upon it from a particular direction.
- A brilliant teenager is pampered by the English Golf Union, is accepted at an American university, where he coruscates, returns home and is virtually an overnight success.
Synonyms shining, light, brilliant, vivid, blazing, dazzling, beaming, intense, glaring
OriginEarly 18th century: from Latin coruscat- ‘glittered’, from the verb coruscare. |