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GLOAR

Definition: GLOAR

GLOAR

Intransitive verb

1. To squint; to stare.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Gloar \Gloar\, intransitive verb. [OD. gloeren, glueren, gluyeren. Compare to Glower.]. (references)

"GLOAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: glair, glare, glary, gloat, glory, gluer.

 

Synonyms within Context: GLOAR

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Wonder

Verb: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; Adjective: start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank; (disappointment); tombe des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GLOAR

Etymologies containing "GLOAR": Glore. (references)

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Rhyming with "GLOAR"

Words ending with "oar": Boar, Goar. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GLOAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: algor, argol, goral, largo.

Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-r"

-1 letter: gaol, goal, oral.

-2 letters: ago, gal, gar, goa, gor, lag, lar, log, oar, ora, rag.

-3 letters: ag, al, ar, go, la, lo, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-r"
 

+1 letter: algors, argols, galore, gaoler, glamor, gloria, gooral, gorals, largos, rugola.

 

+2 letters: aerogel, airglow, allegro, arugola, clangor, galores, gaolers, garboil, girasol, glamors, glamour, gloater, glomera, glorias, goldarn, goliard, gomeral, goorals, gorilla, granola, languor, legator, pergola, rugolas, vorlage.

 

+3 letters: aerogels, aerology, agrology, airglows, algaroba, algorism, allegory, allegros, areology, arugolas, bargello, beglamor, caroling, clangors, clangour, dialoger, floorage, galloper, garboils, gardyloo, gargoyle, gasolier, geraniol, girasole, girasols, glabrous, glamours, gloaters, globular, glossary, goalward, goldarns, goliards, gomerals, gorillas, granolas, growable, gyroidal, hologram, jargonel, kilogram, laboring, languors, largando, leapfrog, legators, logogram, longhair, marigold, nonglare, oligarch, oliguria, original, outglare, overglad, paroling, pergolas, playgoer, podagral, prodigal, regional, seraglio, travelog, trigonal, vorlages, waterlog, yearlong.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GLOAR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 4C 4F 41 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-..    ---    .-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001100 01001111 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G L O A R

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 004F 0041 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4146493552

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