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gleaming

adj
/ˈɡliːmɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. Having a bright sheen.

    • The knight rode into battle with a gleaming sword.
    • The city skyline looked beautiful under the gleaming lights.
    • For years, the Persian Gulf countries had worried about the prospect of an out-of-control war with Iran, which would bring missiles and drones to their gleaming cities, trapping tourists and sending foreign executives fleeing.

  2. A flash of reflected light.

  3. present participle and gerund of gleam

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gleaming. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01gleaming02flash03illuminate04clarify05resolve06clear07luminous08brightly09bright

A definitional loop anchored at gleaming. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at gleaming

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA