glare
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English
Etymology
From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡlɛɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡlɛə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Noun
glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)
- (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:
- the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
- Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- An angry or fierce stare.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
light
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brilliance
angry or fierce stare
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Verb
glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)
- (intransitive) To stare angrily.
- He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, ; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, , →OCLC, stanza XXXIX:
- eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:
- Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]
- (intransitive) To shine brightly.
- The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:
- 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 VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
- Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
Coordinate terms
Translations
to stare angrily
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to shine brightly
to be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid
Adjective
glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)
- (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary
- skating on glare ice
Anagrams
Manx
Etymology
Noun
glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)
Derived terms
- glare-vroghe
- glareydagh (“linguistic; linguist”)
- lioar-ghlare (“literary language”)
- neughlaragh (“voiceless”)
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| glare | ghlare | nglare |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||