Glare
[gleə] or [ɡlɛr]
Definition
(noun.) an angry stare.
(noun.) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; 'a glare of sunlight'.
(verb.) shine intensely; 'The sun glared down on us'.
(verb.) be sharply reflected; 'The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface'.
Inputed by Allen--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
(v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
(v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
(v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
(n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
(n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.
(n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
(n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
(n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
Inputed by Gerard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Flare, dazzle, glitter, glisten, gleam, sparkle.[2]. Glower, look fierce, look black.
n. [1]. Glitter, flare, dazzling light.[2]. Fierce look.
Checked by Chiquita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Beam, shine, gleam, ray, radiate, glow
ANT:Shimmer, scintillate, glitter, smoulder, glimmer, glisten, glister, sparkle,flash, flicker
Checker: Wendy
Definition
n. a clear dazzling light: overpowering lustre: a piercing look.—v.i. to shine with a clear dazzling light: to be ostentatiously splendid: to look with piercing eyes.—adj. Glar′ing bright and dazzling: barefaced: notorious.—adv. Glar′ingly.—n. Glar′ingness.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As the glare of day mellowed into twilight, we looked down upon a picture which is celebrated all over the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Holmes held it out on his open palm in the glare of the electric light. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Pickwick returned the glare, concentrated into a focus by means of his spectacles, and breathed a bold defiance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Facing her on the bank blazed the fire, which at once sent a ruddy glare into the room where she was, and overpowered the candles. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The volcano was now spouting fire furiously, and by the glare they were able to see the entrance of the breakwater. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When they met by mischance, he made sarcastic bows or remarks to the child, or glared at him with savage-looking eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He glared at me in mingled rage and relief. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- One night last summer he glared at me like Famine and Sword, and it made me feel so low that I didn't comb out my few hairs for two days. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He glared from one to the other of us with a pair of blazing black eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Just at my bedside, the figure stopped: the fiery eyes glared upon me--she thrust up her candle close to my face, and extinguished it under my eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The sailor's hand crept slyly to the butt of one of his revolvers; his wicked eyes glared vengefully at the retreating form of the young Englishman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The champion of Montreux glared at his colleague. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not one of her relations, for they lay glaring on her with stony eyes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As by a fascination, every eye was now directed to the glaring greenish-gray eye of Simon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ryder stood glaring with a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He lay on his back, with his teeth set, his right hand clenched on his breast, and his glaring eyes looking straight upward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On which interruption Mrs. Chadband glares and Mrs. Snagsby says, For shame! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Trudy