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What does scintillate mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
    1. (astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
    2. (nuclear physics) Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
  2. (transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.
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The chief had never been addressed in this audacious fashion, and his eyes seemed to scintillate from under his scowling brows.
This was a complete change of atmosphere with its black walls, huge light bulbs of a little intensity, making scintillate only the filament.
You'll also appreciate how water is Sydney's greatest asset, making the city scintillate and dazzle.
He was working on a method for identifying quasars through a discovery in the mid 1960s that quasars scintillate more than less compact radio sources.
Glimpses of blues, greens, reds, and umbers scintillate, emphasizing the whiteness of the gorgeously textured fields.
Past and present scintillate in these lakes and rivers, whose whispers tell us of the brightest future.

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