Definitions for scintillate

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scintillate scin·til·late

Spelling: [sin-tl-eyt]

IPA: /ˈsɪn tlˌeɪt/

Scintillate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 798 anagrams from letters in scintillate (aceiillnstt).

Definitions for scintillate

verb (used with object)

1. to emit as sparks; flash forth.

verb (used without object)

1. to emit sparks.
2. to sparkle; flash:
3. to twinkle, as the stars.
4. Electronics. (of a spot of light or image on a radar display) to shift rapidly around a mean position.
5. Physics. (of the amplitude, phase, or polarization of an electromagnetic wave) to fluctuate in a random manner. (of an energetic photon or particle) to produce a flash of light in a phosphor by striking it.

Origin of scintillate

First recorded in 1615-25, scintillate is from the Latin word scintillātus (past participle of scintillāre to send out sparks, flash). See scintilla, Examples for scintillate

Whenever he writes of himself, his pen seems fairly to scintillate.

They do not scintillate nearly so much as he does, and they do not give that same uncomfortable feeling of internal strain.

It should be well burnt, and should not scintillate or smoke.

And they shone steadily: they did not scintillate, they were calmly glorious.

Voltaire's tales are, in narrative form, criticisms of belief or opinion which scintillate with ironic wit.

He was on the defensive, and it was a position, as in all of his matches, in which he does not scintillate.

You only glimmer dully—your fingers do not sparkle and dazzle and scintillate as they did.

He may have been an excellent ostler, but did not scintillate as an officers' steward.

They did not scintillate, but rather glistened with a steady greenish lustre.

The chief had never been addressed in this audacious fashion, and his eyes seemed to scintillate from under his scowling brows.