glare
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
Noun [edit]
glare (plural glares)
- (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- An angry or fierce stare.
- (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
Translations [edit]
light
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a stare
Verb [edit]
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.
- (intransitive) To shine brightly.
- The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- Milton
- Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
- Milton
Translations [edit]
to stare angrily
shine
Derived terms [edit]
Adjective [edit]
glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)
- (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary
- skating on glare ice
Anagrams [edit]
Lojban [edit]
Etymology [edit]
In Lojbanized spelling.
- Chinese: re — 熱 (热) [rè]
- English: uarm — warm
- Hindi: garm — गर्म [garma]
- Spanish: kaluros — caluroso
- Russian: gariac — горячий [gorâčij]
- Arabic: xar
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈɡlare/
Gismu [edit]
- hot; x1 is hot/[warm] by standard x2.
Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
Manx [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Irish glór.
Noun [edit]
glare f (genitive glare, plural glaraghyn)
Mutation [edit]
| 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. |
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