Meaning of चमक in English

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.
To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
To be exposed to too much light.
To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
Leaf of lard.
To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
To trick up in a showy manner.
To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
A pool.
A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
of Flash
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
A fierce, piercing look or stare.
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.
A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.
A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.
A false or specious explanation.
To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
To make comments; to comment; to explain.
To make sly remarks, or insinuations.
The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface.
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
To make hot; to flush.
White or red heat; incandscence.
Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.
One who lusts.
Alt. of Lustre
Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.
A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.
The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.
A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.
To make lustrous.
Same as Luster.
of Nimbus
A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.
A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.
Alt. of Radiancy
The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.
Alt. of Resplendency
A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.
Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.
To shine; to glisten.
Brightness; splendor; glitter.
To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
To cause to shine, as a light.
To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
Sunshine; fair weather.
A liking for a person; a fancy.
Caper; antic; row.
Shining; sheen.
The state of being silvery.
A little spark; a scintillation.
Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.
To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
To disperse.
To scatter on or over.
The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
State or quality of being brinish.
of Glance
Shooting, as light.
Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Brightness; splendor.
To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
of Gleam
The quality of being glib.
A light or candle.
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
Mica. See Mica.
Glimmer; mica.
The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.
That which is formed into a ball; a ball.
To glare; to glower.
Moodiness; sullenness.
of Lustre
The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.
The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
Brightness.