Synonyms of the word

twinkle

• v. (of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
• v. (chiefly of eyes) to be bright with delight.
• v. to bat, blink or wink the eyes.
• v. to flit to and fro.
• n. a sparkle or glimmer of light.
• n. a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
• n. a flitting movement.

alteration

• n. The act of altering or making different.
• n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

aspect

• n. Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
• n. The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
• n. The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
• n. A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
• n. One's appearance or expression.
• n. Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction;…
• n. Prospect; outlook.
• n. (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal…
• n. (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular…
• n. (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
• n. (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
• n. (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a…

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

blink

• v. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
• v. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
• v. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
• v. To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
• v. (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
• v. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
• v. (video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
• n. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
• n. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
• n. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
• n. A glimpse or glance.
• n. (Britain, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
• n. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice…
• n. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
• n. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

expression

• n. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
• n. A colloquialism or idiom.
• n. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
• n. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
• n. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
• n. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
• n. Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.
• n. A specific blend of whisky.

face

• n. (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
• n. One's facial expression.
• n. The public image; outward appearance.
• n. The frontal aspect of something.
• n. (figuratively) Presence; sight; front.
• n. The directed force of something.
• n. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
• n. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
• n. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
• n. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces…
• n. Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
• n. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
• n. (slang) The mouth.
• n. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) Short for baby face. A wrestler whose on-ring persona is embodying heroic…
• n. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
• n. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
• n. (card games) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same…
• n. (heraldry) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
• n. (typography) A typeface.
• n. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
• n. (computing) An interface.
• n. The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
• v. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to…
• v. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
• v. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opponent.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
• v. (obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
• v. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
• v. To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
• v. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception,…
• v. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting,…

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

look

• v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• v. To appear, to seem.
• v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
• v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
• v. To face or present a view.
• v. To expect or anticipate.
• v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
• v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
• v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
• v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
• interj. Pay attention.
• n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
• n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
• n. A facial expression.

modification

• n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
• n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
• n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
• n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
• n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

radiate

• v. To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
• v. (transitive) To emit rays or waves.
• v. (intransitive) To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
• v. (transitive) To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
• v. (ecology, intransitive) to spread into new habitats, migrate.
• adj. Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
• adj. Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
• adj. (botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
• adj. (biology) Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
• adj. (zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.
• n. (zoology) One of the Radiata.

scintillate

• v. (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.

scintillation

• n. A flash of light; a spark.
• n. (astronomy) The twinkling of a star or other celestial body caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
• n. (nuclear physics) The flash of light produced by something (especially a phosphor) when it absorbs ionizing…

shine

• v. (intransitive) To emit light.
• v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
• v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
• v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
• v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
• v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
• v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
• v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
• v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
• n. Brightness from a source of light.
• n. Brightness from reflected light.
• n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
• n. Shoeshine.
• n. Sunshine.
• n. (slang) Moonshine.
• n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
• n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
• n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

spark

• n. A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
• n. A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
• n. A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
• n. (figuratively) A small amount of something, such as an idea, that has the potential to become something…
• n. (in plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.
• n. (Britain, slang) An electrician.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
• v. (transitive) To light; to kindle.
• v. (intransitive) To give off a spark or sparks.
• n. A gallant, a foppish young man.
• n. A beau, lover.
• v. To woo, court.

sparkle

• n. A little spark; a scintillation.
• n. Brilliance; luster.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles.
• v. (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
• v. (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce.
• v. (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.

sparkling

• v. present participle of sparkle.
• adj. Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.
• adj. Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally…
• adj. (figuratively) Brilliant and vivacious.
• n. Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
• n. A sparkling wine.

verve

• n. Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing.
• n. artistic energy and enthusiasm.
• n. vigour, vitality and liveliness.
• n. rapture, enthusiasm.
• n. spirit, energy.

vitality

• n. The capacity to live and develop.
• n. Energy or vigour.
• n. That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

wink

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. (When transitive,…
• v. (intransitive) To twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To be dim and flicker.
• n. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
• n. A brief time; an instant.
• n. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
• n. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

winkle

• n. A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
• n. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus…
• n. (children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
• v. To extract.