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Princeton's WordNet

  1. twinkle, scintillation, sparklingadjective

    a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

  2. sparklingadjective

    shining with brilliant points of light like stars

    "sparkling snow"; "sparkling eyes"

  3. sparkling, effervescentadjective

    used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide

    "sparkling wines"; "sparkling water"

Wiktionary

  1. sparklingadjective

    Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.

  2. sparklingadjective

    Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sparkling

    of Sparkle

  2. Sparklingadjective

    emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sparkling in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sparkling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sparkling in a Sentence

  1. Simona Bonanno:

    The ships are sparkling and very colored, and the blue (sea and sky) and the white (the exterior of the ship) are prevalent, i want to focus on the lines, silhouettes, shadows, reflections and people.

  2. Celina Li:

    Sparkling water has had another very big year, and we are well-positioned to increase our presence in the category in a big, bold way.

  3. Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

    Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

  4. Alexander Zakharchenko:

    While we still have time before the spring, new detachments will be able to receive military training, we expect mobilization to yield at least five additional brigades five motorized brigades, one artillery brigade and a tank brigade. The Ukrainian rearguard for the Debaltseve front in Artemivsk, the home of one of the country's best-selling sparkling wines, looks increasingly like a garrison town. Auto-mechanics and tire shops have seen a sharp pick-up in business repairing damaged vehicles brought in by soldiers. Abandoned Soviet-era plants have been converted into bases. The local stadium is used as a landing pad for helicopters ferrying out the wounded. Many troops are nervous, jumpy and ill-tempered. On Wednesday, a group of irregulars detained a group of international journalists in the center and threatened to escort them out of the town if they took pictures of military equipment. The cannonades are fainter in Artemivsk, but they can still be heard. The significance of that is lost on few.

  5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

    I vowed this year — just sparkling water—stay away from the wine — but the dinner was so delicious it needed wine. she said, BUBIE, you were sleeping!

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Translations for sparkling

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  • šumivý, třpytivý, perlivýCzech
  • αστραφτερός, λάμπων, αφρώδης, αεριούχος, σπινθηροβόλοςGreek
  • espumosoSpanish
  • loistavaFinnish
  • mousseuxFrench
  • brillante, gassata, scintillanteItalian
  • 번쩍이는Korean
  • газирана, газирано, блескав, газиранMacedonian
  • glitreNorwegian
  • gazowany, musujące, musujący, lśniący, gazowana, musująca, gazowanePolish
  • gaziran, газирана, газиран, газирано, gazirano, gaziranaSerbo-Croatian
  • glimrande, glittrandeSwedish

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  • A. trigger
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