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Adjective sparkling has 4 senses
  1. sparkling - shining with brilliant points of light like stars; "sparkling snow"; "sparkling eyes"
    Antonym:     starless (indirect, via starry)
  2. bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly - marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
    Antonym: dull (indirect, via lively)
  3. sparkling, effervescent - used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling water"
    Antonyms: still, noneffervescent
  4. aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly - having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"
    Antonym: dull (indirect, via bright)
,Noun sparkling has 1 sense
  1. twinkle, scintillation, sparkling - a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
    --1 is a kind of change, alteration, modification
    Derived form: verb sparkle1
,Verb sparkle has 4 senses
  1. sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
    --1 is one way to reflect, shine
    Derived forms: noun sparkle3, noun sparkle2, noun sparkler1, noun sparkling1
    Sample sentences:
    Lights sparkle on the horizon
    The horizon is sparkleing with lights
  2. sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert hall"
    --2 is one way to be
    Derived form: noun sparkle1
    Sample sentences:
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  3. spark, sparkle - emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
    --3 is one way to emit, give out, give off
    Derived form: noun sparkle2
    Sample sentence:
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  4. foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle - form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"
    --4 is one way to bubble
    Sample sentence:
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