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Definition: Flaring |
FlaringAdjective1. Having a gradual increase in width; "flared nostrils"; "a skirt flaring from the waist". 2. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flaring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | The burning of recovered landfill gas from a stack under controlled conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Burning-off of unwanted gas; flaring is done at the end of a flare stack whose purpose is to maintain a safe distance between the flaring gas and the other potentially flammable material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | The burning of waste gases through a flare stack or other device before releasing them to the air. (references) |
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Synonyms: FlaringSynonyms: aflare (adj), flared (adj), fluttering (adj), flying (adj), waving (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flaring |
| English words defined with "flaring": aflare, arrow-shaped ♦ flared, Flaringly, fluttering, flying ♦ hastate, hastate leaf, hipbone, Horsenail ♦ innominate bone ♦ Petticoat pipe ♦ sagittate, sagittiform, Shoe bolt, spearhead-shaped ♦ Thistle funnel ♦ Wall-sided, waving. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flaring": horn socket ♦ SETTER, INDUCTION-HEATING EQUIPMENT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flaring": Flare. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Corn crib near Bartlett, West Virginia. Typically-formed crib, following shape of southeastern American Indian crib but adapted in materials by European colonists. This crib with typically flaring sides, found commonly in Michigan and Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Night Lights" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Multi-colored light flaring from streetlights at dusk." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Fireball; meteor; fiery; ablaze; afire; aflame; alight; blazing; burning; conflagrant; flaming; flaring; ignited; lighted; afire; fire. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He saw a flaring flame, and about that flame, goblins |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In a few moments there came the sounds of shouts and screams, and then a flaring light arose from the direction of the Hooverville |
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| "Flaring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Flaring" is used about 78 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.33% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.97% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.41% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 78 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flaring": flared flaring ♦ flaring angle ♦ gas flaring. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "flaring": fin-flaring, gas-flaring. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flaring tool | 29 |
flaring | 16 |
tube flaring | 13 |
brake flaring tool | 7 |
double flaring tool | 5 |
flaring machine tube | 5 |
37 degree flaring tool | 3 |
brake line flaring tool | 2 |
tube flaring tool | 2 |
flaring imperial tool | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flaring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | flakërues (flamboyant, flaming, flashy, lambent), që hapet (openable), që bie në sy (in evidence, noticeable, showy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشتعل (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, be alight, blazing, burner, burning, conflagrant, in flames, on fire), باهر (admirable, dazzling, glamorous, glamourous, mesmeric, out of this world, smashing, splendid). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flashy, garish, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), ослепителен (blinding, dazzling, glaring, intense, vivid), блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb, vivid). (various references) | |
Chinese | 飘动 (flared). (various references) | |
Czech | plápolající (flared). (various references) | |
Danish | udvidning, drivning (bossing, embossing, forcing, forcing crop, pressing, slabbing, stretching, swaging), direkte efterforbrænding (gas flaring), afbrænding (singeing). (various references) | |
Dutch | verbranding in een fakkel (gas flaring), uitroefelen, uitdrijven (expel), roefelen, affakkelen (gas flaring). (various references) | |
Finnish | soihdutus, pakokaasun poltto (gas flaring), avartaminen (boring, counterboring), avarrus. (various references) | |
French | torchage, en flamme (flame, flicker), combustion en torchère (gas flaring), brillant, brûlage à la torche, brûlage, évasement en entonnoir, évasement. (various references) | |
German | flackernd (flickered, flickering, unsteady), auffallend (colorful, colourful, conspicuous, conspicuously, flamboyantly, garishly, near, notable, notably, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, stagily, stagy, striking, strikingly). (various references) | |
Greek | καύση σε πυρσό, καύση σε λυχνία (gas flaring), τελείωμα χειλέων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | זוהר (brightness, brilliance, glamor, glamour, incandescent, lustre, lustrous, magnificence, radiance, radiant, sheen, shine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lobogó (banner, bickering, blazing, bunting, flag, flaming, flaunting, flying, standard, streamer), lángoló (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, blazing, flaming, flamy, lurid, red-hot), lángolás (flame, flaming). (various references) | |
Italian | svasatura (flare), svasamento ad imbuto (bellmouthing), mandare in torcia, bruciare in torcia. (various references) | |
Korean | 확 타오름. (various references) | |
Manx | lossanagh (aglow, auroral, blazing, bright, flaming, genial, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, phosphorescent, varnish), londyrnee (dazzling, flare, flashing, glare, glare as light). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aringflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vistoso (brave, clipping, dressy, faked, flash, flashy, gallant, garish, goodly, noisy, off-key, showy, spicy, theatrical, viewy), vistosamente, resplandecente (blazing, bright, fulgent, glorious, lucid, luminous, refulgent, resplendent, reverberant, reverberating), queima em facho, deslumbrantemente (glaringly), deslumbrante (glamorous, glamourous, glaring, gorgeous), cintilante (agleam, brisk, flashy, lambent, shining, shiny, sparkling), bojudo (bulging), alargamento em funil (bellmouthing), alargamento (enlargement, extension, flare, splay). (various references) | |
Romanian | pâlpâit (flare). (various references) | |
Russian | развальцовка, ослепительный (candescent, dazzling, flashy, garish, glaring), безвкусный (dowdy, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, insipid, milk and water, tasteless, vapid). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plamteći (flaming, flamy), plamsanje, drečav (garish, gaudy, loud, tacky). (various references) | |
Spanish | resplandeciente (glowing, radiant, resplendent), quemado en antorcha, ensanche en embudo (bellmouthing), encendido (ablaze, afire, aglow, alight, fired, flaming, glowing, ignition, lighted, lighting, live, on, switching on, turn on), combustión en antorcha (gas flaring), abocinado. (various references) | |
Swedish | fackling, uppkantning, efterförbränning (gas flaring). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, dazzling, doggy, glamorous, glaring, gorgeous, harsh, incandescent, resplendent), ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сліпучий (blinding, candescent, glaring, incandescent), розкльошений (bell bottomed), позбавлений смаку (garish, tasteless). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flaring": flaringly. (additional references) | |
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"Flaring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alfrink, Falrinne, falsing, flairing, flaling, flarin, flarings, flarting, Flatin, flating, fleving, flyring, laryng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flaring" (pronounced fle"ring) |
| 5 | -l e" r i ng | blaring, declaring, glaring. |
| 4 | -e" r i ng | airing, baring, bearing, caring, chairing, comparing, daring, despairing, haring, herring, impairing, overbearing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing, scaring, sharing, snaring, sparing, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, uncaring, unsparing, Waring, wearing. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, alluring, aspiring, assuring, barring, bioengineering, boring, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, conspiring, curing, deploring, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flooring, gearing, Goring, hearing, hiring, ignoring, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overhearing, overpowering, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, restoring, retiring, roaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, shearing, shoring, smearing, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparring, Spearing, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, tarring, tiring, touring, underscoring, uninspiring, veering, volunteering, warring, wiring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: faring. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, argil, fagin, filar, final, flair, fling, frail, garni, glair, gnarl, grail, grain, infra, liang, ligan, linga. | |
-3 letters: agin, airn, alif, anil, aril, fail, fain, fair, fang, farl, fiar, fila, firn, flag, flan, frag, frig, gain, girl, girn, glia, gnar, gran, grin, lain, lair, lang, lari, liar, ling, lira, naif. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: finagler, infrugal, raffling. | |
+2 letters: faltering, finaglers, flaringly, flavoring, frangible, franglais, frazzling, refalling, reflating. | |
+3 letters: airlifting, anglerfish, clarifying, filtrating, fingernail, flattering, flavorings, flavouring, grainfield, ladyfinger, refloating. | |
+4 letters: centrifugal, cliffhanger, dragonflies, falteringly, farewelling, farthingale, filagreeing, fingernails, fireballing, firewalling, flagrancies, formalising, formalizing, formulating, freelancing, freeloading, fulgurating, fulguration, grainfields, grandiflora, infrangible, infrangibly, ladyfingers, refrangible, reinflating, unfaltering. | |
+5 letters: allografting, anglerfishes, centrifugals, cliffhangers, deflagrating, deflagration, farthingales, federalizing, fibrillating, flatteringly, flowcharting, fluoridating, fluorinating, forestalling, frangibility, fulgurations, grandiflorae, grandifloras, gratifyingly, infiltrating, leapfrogging, lifeguarding, requalifying, scarifyingly, unflattering, unforgivable, waterfowling. | |
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