flare
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
flare (plural flares)
- A sudden bright light.
- A source#Noun|source of brightly burning#Adjective|burning light#Noun|light or intense heat#Noun|heat.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071 ↗, pages 87–88 ↗:
- In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant#Adjective|brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Flares were used to steer the traffic away from the accident.
- The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.
- (oil industry) A flame#Noun|flame produced by a burn-off of waste#Adjective|waste gas#Noun|gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- (figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- A widening#Noun|widening of an object#Noun|object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- During assembly of a flare tube fitting, a flare nut is used to secure the flared tubing’s tapered end to the also tapered fitting, producing a pressure-resistant, leak-tight seal.
- That’s a genuine early 70’s flare on those pants.
- (in plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
- (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level#Adjective|level flight just before landing#Noun|landing.
- The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- Synonyms: blooper, Texas leaguer
- Jones hits a little flare to left that falls for a single.
- (American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- (photography) Short for lens flare#English|lens flare.
- French: fusée lumineuse
- German: Fackel, Leuchtfackel, Bengalo, Leuchtsignal, Leuchtkugel, Leuchtzeichen
- Italian: bagliore
- Portuguese: sinalizador
- Russian: вспы́шка
- German: bengalisches Feuer, Leuchtkugel, Leuchtgeschoß, Bengalo
- Russian: фальшфе́йер
- Spanish: bengala
- German: Gasfackel
- German: Schlag, Aufweitung
- Russian: клёш
- German: Abfangen
flare (flares, present participle flaring; past and past participle flared)
- (transitive) To cause#Verb|cause to burn#Verb|burn.
- (transitive) To cause#Verb|cause inflammation; to inflame.
- (ambitransitive) To open#Verb|open outward in shape#Noun|shape.
- The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air. (transitive)
- The cat’s nostrils flared when it sniffed at the air. (intransitive)
- The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza. (intransitive)
- The sides of a bowl flare. (intransitive)
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level#Adjective|level flight just before landing#Noun|landing.
- (intransitive) To blaze#Verb|blaze brightly.
- The blast furnace flared in the night.
- 1802, Joanna Baillie, “Ethwald: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Part Second.”, in A Series of Plays: In which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. […], volume II, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], OCLC 926850714 ↗, Act V, scene v, page 351 ↗:
- Thou rear'st thy stately neck, / And, while I list, thou flarest in men's eyes / A gorgeous queen; I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; {{...}
Conjugation of flare
infinitive | (to) flare | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | flare | flared | |
2nd-person singular | flarest* | flared, flaredst* | |
3rd-person singular | flares, flareth* | flared#English|flared | |
plural | flare | ||
subjunctive | flare | ||
imperative | flare | — | |
participle> participles | flaring | flared | |
* Archaic or obsolete. |
- German: hell leuchten, hell lodern
- Italian: sfolgorare, brillare, scintillare
- Russian: вспы́хивать
- German: auffflackern, aufleuchten
- German: grell leuchten, schrill aufleuchten
- German: auflodern
- German: plötzlich auffahren, plötzlich hochfahren, explodieren
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