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Definition: Flare-up |
Flare-upNoun1. A sudden violent happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flare-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Flare-up A sudden outburst of anger; a gas-jet or other ignitible body flares up when lighted with a sudden blaze. Flare-up (A). A rumpus or row. Also a banquet or jovial treat. The first meaning is simply the substantive of the verb. The second meaning refers to dazzle and "splendour" displayed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Flare-upSynonyms: burst (n), outburst (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: flareup (food & agriculture, environment). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flare-Up Sal (1918) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This second flare-up could come weeks or even years after the initial occurrence. (references) | |
Economic History | Netherlands | The current slowdown of the economy has been overshadowed by a sharp flare-up of consumer price inflation. (references) |
Ecuador | The commissions began work in February, with the intention of reaching a definitive agreement by May 30, 1998. The commissions on border integration and mutual confidence measures successfully concluded their work, and the commission working on a treaty of commerce and navigation produced a draft treaty text, but the commission on border demarcation failed to produce agreement by May 30. A flare-up in military tensions in the disputed region in August 1998 led to the creation of a temporary second MOMEP-patrolled demilitarized zone just south of the first demilitarized zone. (references) | |
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| "Flare-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flare-up" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "flare-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | blussende lys (flare-up light). (various references) | |
Dutch | stakelvuur (flare-up light), stakelpot (flare-up light), stakellicht (flare-up light). (various references) | |
French | lumière vacillante (flare-up light). (various references) | |
German | Flackerlicht (flare-up light), Flackerfeuer (flare-up light). (various references) | |
Greek | έντονο φως μικρής διάρκειας (flare-up light). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felvillanás (flash, glint), fellobbanás (dash, flare), fellángoló fény, felfortyanás, zendülés (mutiny, rebellion, affray, sedition), zavargás (disturbance, rioting, riotousness, turbulence), villanó fény, veszekedés (quarrel, altercation, brawl, jangle, jarring), tivornya (bender, revelry), mulatozás (fling, gaieties, jollification, revel, revelry), lázongás (riot), dáridó (spree, revel, revelry, rollick), összeszólalkozás (rumpus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | are-upflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | entusiasmo (enthusiasm). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flareup. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: earful, ferula, pleura, purfle. | |
-2 letters: farle, feral, feuar, flare, paler, pareu, parle, pearl, puler, ureal. | |
-3 letters: alef, aper, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flap, flea, flue, frae, frap, fuel, furl, leaf, leap, lear, lure, pale, pare, peal, pear, pelf, plea, prau, pula, pule, pure, purl, rale, rape, real, reap, rule, urea. | |
-4 letters: ale, alp. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: flareups. | |
+2 letters: prayerful, prefeudal. | |
+3 letters: painfuller, platterful, prequalify, presageful, superflack. | |
+4 letters: peacefuller, platterfuls, plattersful, prayerfully, prefectural, reproachful, superfamily, superficial, superflacks. | |
+5 letters: pasqueflower, preformulate, prequalified, prequalifies, sprachgefuhl, unprofitable. | |
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