Flare
[fleə] or [flɛr]
Definition
(noun.) (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield.
(noun.) a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification.
(noun.) a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate.
(noun.) a sudden outburst of emotion; 'she felt a flare of delight'; 'she could not control her flare of rage'.
(noun.) am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection).
(noun.) a sudden burst of flame.
(noun.) a shape that spreads outward; 'the skirt had a wide flare'.
(noun.) a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms; 'a colitis flare'; 'infection can cause a lupus flare'.
(noun.) reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation.
(verb.) burn brightly; 'Every star seemed to flare with new intensity'.
(verb.) shine with a sudden light; 'The night sky flared with the massive bombardment'.
Checked by Leda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
(v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
(v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
(n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
(n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
(n.) Leaf of lard.
Edited by Erna
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Glare, dazzle.[2]. Widen outward, spread outward.
n. Glare, unsteady light.
Edited by Elise
Definition
v.i. to burn with a glaring unsteady light: to glitter or flash: to display glaringly.—n. an unsteady light.—p.adj. Flā′ring giving out an unsteady light: gaudy.—adv. Flā′ringly.—adj. Flā′ry.
Edited by Eva
Examples
- The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I wonder what that second flare-up was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He saw the yellow flare in her eyes, he knew the unthinkable overweening assumption of primacy in her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As the words sprang out he was prepared for an answering flare of anger; and he would have welcomed it as fuel for his own. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I was sure I shouldn't get any thanks for it, she returned with a flare of temper. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Your library of books is the hollow down by the flare, I think. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The candles flared and guttered before her, and the wax ex-votos hung about the shrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Knowledge flared up, and as it flared it ceased to be the privilege of a favoured minority. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his savage taunting, he flared the candle so close at me that I turned my face aside to save it from the flame. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The girl only stared at him with a black look in which flared an unfathomable hell of knowledge, and a certain impotence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Once more Athens flared into importance as the head of a confederation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus, gradually the Sol's Arms melts into the shadowy night and then flares out of it strong in gas. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The situation might be compared to those hysterias in which a suppressed impulse flares up and rules the whole mental life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He lighted the candle from the flaring match with great deliberation, and dropped the match, and trod it out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Affery opened it a very little, with a flaring candle in her hands and asked who was that, at that time of night, with that knock! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Feeling him looking, she lifted her face and sought his eyes, her own beautiful grey eyes flaring him a great signal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her galley-fire smoking and flaring, looked like a comfortable home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The flaring lamps of a carriage were immediately in view. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This apparatus as invented by Edison consists of a flaring box, curved at one end to fit closely over the forehead and eyes, while the other end of the box is closed by a paste-board cover. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The torches we carried dropped great blotches of fire upon the track, and I could see those, too, lying smoking and flaring. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Sumner