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Definitions: Glare |
GlareNoun1. Great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color". 2. An angry stare. Verb1. Look at with a fixed gaze: "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her". 2. Be sharply reflected; "The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface.". 3. Shine with a harsh, uncomfortably brilliant light; "Not even the sea can glare like the sun.". 4. Shine intensely; "The sun glared down on us". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Energy | The discomfort or interference with visual perception when viewing a bright object against a dark background. (references) |
Health | Scatter from bright light that decreases vision. (references) |
Mining | A. A visual sensation that can result in annoyance, discomfort, loss in visual performance, or reduction of visibilty. There are three types of glare: disability, discomfort, and reflected. Glare is a significant factor in determining the design of underground coal mine illumination systems.b. See also:disability glare; discomfort glare. (references) |
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Synonyms: GlareSynonyms: blaze (n), brilliance (n), glower (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glare |
| English words defined with "glare": beat, blaze, brilliance ♦ dark glasses, Dazzlement ♦ Glared, Glore ♦ Polaroid, purposefully ♦ shades, sunglasses. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glare": colored-liquid-plastic applier ♦ disability glare, discomfort glare ♦ Eye Protective Devices, eye strain ♦ GLASS TINTER ♦ Linsey-woolsy Million ♦ miners' nystagmus ♦ Ping O' Death ♦ reflected glare, Reflective Window Films ♦ Solar Film, sunlight protection ♦ To FLARE ♦ wellglass fitting. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glare" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (language, parlance, speech, utterance). |
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Screenplays | There's a lot of glare coming off that dome of yours, squirrel nuts! (Ready to Rumble; writing credit: Steven Brill) | |
Lyrics | From the romantic glare (Insensitive; performing artist: Jann Arden) I like the way the light hit the ice and glare (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Glare of the Lights (1914) | |
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 | By pinpointing individual suns in the glare of the most tightly packed cluster of stars in our ...Credit: NASA. |  | Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building. Glare card to show how glare affects vision.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning | He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He saw the comers and goers through a bewildering glare. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Inside the house a kerosene lamp burned, but its thin light was blasted by the hissing glare of the gasoline lantern. |
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Health | Glare, haloes, difficulty driving at night, and other visual symptoms may also persist during this stabilization period. (references) | |
It is important to realize that although distance vision may improve after re-operation, it is unlikely that other visual symptoms such as glare or haloes will improve. (references) | ||
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| "Glare" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.66% of the time. "Glare" is used about 534 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) | 87.66% | 469 | 12,605 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 10.28% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.68% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 534 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glare": discomfort glare ♦ glare at ♦ glare at smb. ♦ glare at smb. or smth. ♦ reflected glare. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "glare": glare-blind, glare-cry. | |
Ending with "glare": anti-glare. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
glare | 93 | computer anti glare screen | 3 |
anti glare filter | 79 | anti glare spray | 3 |
glare filter | 68 | anti glare monitor | 3 |
anti glare | 29 | glare buster | 3 |
glare screen | 21 | free glare glasses | 3 |
anti glare screen | 19 | big cover glare screen | 3 |
eye glare reduce | 17 | glare polish | 3 |
glare reduction | 15 | monitor glare filter | 3 |
reduce glare | 9 | acrylic glare non | 2 |
non glare glass | 8 | computer glare filter | 2 |
the rocket red glare | 8 | lens and anti glare | 2 |
anti glare screen tv | 7 | glare sun | 2 |
anti glare film | 6 | tv screen glare | 2 |
glare solar | 6 | anti glare screen monitor | 2 |
computer glare screen | 5 | glare glasses | 2 |
non glare | 5 | eye glare | 2 |
anti glare coating | 5 | glare headlight | 2 |
glare guard | 5 | glare polish professional | 2 |
anti glare glasses | 4 | glare non plexiglass | 2 |
monitor glare screen | 4 | tv glare | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "glare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sipërfaqe e lëmuar (smooth surface), shkëlqim verbues, shkëlqim i rreptë, shkëlqej (blaze, bloom, flame, flash, fulgurate, gild, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, glory, glow, light, polish, scintillate, shed, shine), llamburit (shine brightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نظرة ساخطة, وهج (blaze, flame, glow, heat), حملقة, حمل نفس الأسم (namesake), سطع (brighten, brighten up, irradiate, lighten, radiate), بهرجة (flashiness, tawdriness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ярък блясък, фалшив блясък, кръвнишки поглед, гневен поглед, гледам гневно, ослепителен блясък, огледално гладка повърхност, ледена повърхност, блестя ярко. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 强光, 強光 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zlostný pohled, zářit (beam, blaze, eradiate, flash, fulgurate, glean, lighten, radiate, shine, sparkle), záře (brilliance, flare, radiance, shine, sparkle), prudké svìtlo, oslòovat (scintillate), lesk (brilliance, dazzle, gleam, glitter, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, polish, radiance, refulgence, shimmer, shine, splendour), dívat se nasupenì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blinding (blinding, dazzling), blænding (blinding, dazzling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verblinding door reflectie (reflected glare), indien wegen met een voldoende brede middenberm buiten de bebouwde kom van een anti-verblindingsscherm worden voorzien kan bij nacht een vlotter verkeersverloop worden bereikt (the erection of glare screens/anti-dazzle screens/anti-glare fences/ anti-dazzle fences/ can improve night-time traffic flow on roads which are situated outside built-up areas and have sufficiently wide central reserves), anti-verblindingsschermen zijn kunstmatige anti-verblindingsinstallaties uit metaal of kunststof,die hoofdzakelijk op de middenberm van autosnelwegen worden geplaatst (glare screens/anti-dazzle screens/anti-glare/antidazzle/fences are artificial light-screening devices made of metal or plastic and most commonly placed on the central reserves of motorways). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تابش خیره کننده , تشعشع (Flash, Radiance, Ray, Refulgence), خیره نگاه کردن (Gape, Gaze, Gloat, Glower, Stare), روشناءی زننده , درخشندگی زیاد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuijottaa (gaze, glower, stare), räikeys (gaudiness, glaringness), paiste (shine), paistatella (shine), mulkoilla (glower, roll one's eyes, stare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éblouissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Blendung (blinding, dazzle, dazzling), anblitzen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λάμψη (brightness, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, flare, flash, glint, glisten, glitter, gloss, glow, limelight, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, shine, shininess, shining, splendor, splendour, twinkle), αγριοκοιτάζω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבט כועס (black looks, frown, scowl), מבט וקב, ל עוץ מבט (stare), אור מס ור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | verõfény, rikít (squeal, to glare, to scream, to stare), ragyogás (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, flame, glamor, glamour, glitter, glossiness, glowing, irradiation, lucency, luster, lustre, Lustrum, magnificence, radiance, radiancy, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour), ragyog (beam, blaze, gleam, glister, glitter, shine, to beacon, to beam, to blaze, to coruscate, to glare, to glisten, to glitter, to glow, to scintillate, to spark, to twinkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mencorong (radiate, shine), cahaya menyilaukan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | guardare con aria feroce, splendore accecante, splendere luce abbagliante, sguardo furioso, sguardo feroce, sfolgorare (blaze), luce (admittance, aperture for day light only on sufferance by the neighbour, headlamp, lamp, leaf, light, light aspect, light in color, light in colour, opening, passage, signal light, span, theoretical span, visible radiation, waterway, window, work clearance), bagliore (flare, flash, gleam, light, shimmer, sparkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 睨み (sharp look), ぎゅう詰め (at the last moment, being startled, crumpled, dazzle, disheveled, feel gloomy, feeling depressed, glitter, hard, jammed, just barely, mimesis, mimicry, packed like sardines, snoringly, tight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎらぎら (dazzle, glitter), にらみ (sharp look). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 눈총. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gleamey, ard-sollys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skinne (gleam), skarpt lys, blikk (can, glance, look, tin, tin can), blende (dazzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | areglay glanduloso, olhar penetrante, olhar fixamente (gaze, regard, touch upon), lençol de gelo, deslumbrar (dazzle), brilho intenso. (various references) suprafaţã netedã şi lunecoasã, strãlucire orbitoare, strãluci orbitor, strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), se îmbrãca fãrã gust, privire fixã (gaze, stare), orbi (blind, dazzle, deceive, flash, hoodwink), luminã (culture, glim, glow, illumination, light, lighting, lightness, lucidity, luminous energy, opening, perspective, side light, span, twinkle), cãutãturã (appearance, gaze, glance, look, peep, regard, stare, view), arunca o privire fioroasã cuiva, arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot). (various references) свирепый взгляд, слепящая яркость, ослепительный блеск, ослепительно сверкать. (various references) zverati, zveranje, santa leda (block of ice, drift ice, ice floe, iceberg), blistati (glitter), blesak (blaze, flare, flash). (various references) deslumbrar (bedazzle, blind, daze, dazzle), deslumbramiento (blinding, blooming, dazzle, dazzling). (various references) skarpt (sharp, sharply). (various references) göze batmak, göze batan şey (eyesore), göz kamaştırmak (bedazzle, blind, dazzle, look one's best, sparkle), göz kamaştırıcı ışık, parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parlak ve şeffaf yüzey, parlak ve şeffaf, parıltı (blink, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), pürüzsüz (clean-cut, fluently, glabrous, glazed, sleek, smooth), kötü kötü bakmak, kötü bakış, dik dik bakmak (fix, gaze, gaze at, gaze on, gaze up on, stare, stare at), düşmanca bakış. (various references) mцlerilmek (stare). (various references) сліпуче блищати, сліпучий блиск (blare, dazzle), пишнота (brilliance, grandeur, lordliness, magnificence, pageantry, panoply, pride, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, splendor, splendour), пильно дивитися (stare). (various references) cái nhìn giận dữ, ánh sáng (light, shine, shone), ánh chói vẻ h o nhoáng loè loẹt cái nhìn trừng trừng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glare": glared, glares. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glare": aglare, antiglare, nonglare, outglare. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glare": outglared, outglares. (additional references) | |
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"Glare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galar, galer, Galera, Galiara, Galro, gareb, gelare, ghari, glabe, glae, Glage, Glame, glane, glar, glard, glars, glart, glaue, gleer, gler, glete, gloar, Glora, glorg, glorp, glort, Glro, glurk, Glyrm, goare, Golafre, guare, Guarea, gular, Guljaev, Gwari. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glare" (pronounced gle"r) |
| 3 | -l e" r | blare, declare, flair, flare, lair, Lehr. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argle, lager, large, regal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r" | |
-1 letter: ager, earl, egal, gale, gear, lear, rage, rale, real. | |
-2 letters: age, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lea, leg, rag, reg. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r" | |
+1 letter: aglare, alegar, angler, argled, argles, argyle, galere, galore, gaoler, garble, gargle, glaire, glared, glares, glazer, gravel, laager, lagers, lagger, larger, larges, malgre, raggle, regale, regnal, tergal. | |
+2 letters: aerogel, alegars, algebra, aligner, alleger, allegro, allergy, angerly, anglers, argyles, clanger, dangler, draggle, eagerly, earplug, engrail, enlarge, flagger, flanger, fragile, gabbler, galeres, gallery, galores, gambler, gambrel, gangrel, gaolers, garbled, garbler, garbles, gargled, gargler, gargles, general, glacier, gladder, gladier, glaired, glaires, glancer, glarier, glazers, glazier, gleamer, gleaner, gloater, glomera, gnarled, gomeral, grabble, gracile, grackle, granule, grapnel, grapple, graupel, gravels, gravely, greatly, gremial, greylag, haggler, jangler, laagers, lagered, laggers, langrel, largely, largess, largest, laugher, leaguer, legator, mangler, nargile, pergola, plaguer, raggles, realgar, realign, regaled, regaler, regales, regalia, regally, reginal, reglaze, regular, tangler, tegular, verglas, vorlage, wangler, wrangle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 6C 61 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. .- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101100 01100001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G l a r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 006C 0061 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4178678471 |
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