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# glimmering

«glimmering» in Mova's school dictionary: **shining faintly or weakly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (present participle of glimmer); adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Glimmering means shining faintly or weakly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/#m1)

2) (adjective) Glimmering describes something that gives a faint light, such as glimmering stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a glimmering insect or a glimmering moon gives a soft, pale light that can be seen in the dark

### examples

- The morning dawn came glimmering red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/#x1)
- A tiny insect glimmered on the tree, a small glimmering being. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/#x2)
- The glimmering candle lit the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/#x3)
- Fireflies filled the garden with glimmering lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glimmering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.