glare
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
glare
- (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
- Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- An angry or fierce stare.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
- (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
- (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
- a glare of ice
- A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
- French: éclat
- German: entrüstetes Starren
- Italian: frecciata
- Spanish: mirada fulminante
glare (glares, present participle glaring; past and past participle glared)
- (intransitive) To stare angrily.
- He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
- (intransitive) To shine brightly.
- The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
- (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount
- She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount
- (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
- German: missbilligend anstarren
glare
- (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary
- skating on glare ice
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