glare

English

Etymology

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-Germanic *glēzāną. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛəɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛə/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.

   a glare of ice

6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

Translations

light

• Bulgarian: блясък (bg) m (bljasǎk)
• Catalan: brillantor f, esclat (ca) m
• Danish: blændende lys
• Finnish: häikäisevä valo
• French: éclat (fr)
• Galician: lampexo m, relostro m, luzada f, lampo (gl) m, fogaxe f, fachada f
• German: Blendung (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: dallrú m
• Italian: bagliore (it) m, lampo (it) m
• Manx: ard-sollys m
• Maori: kōnakonako
• Portuguese: clarão (pt) m
• Volapük: tulit
• Welsh: llewyrch m, llewych m

brilliance

• Danish: skin (da)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: éclat (fr)
• Galician: lampexo m, relostro m, luzada f, brilo m, fogaxe f, crarén m

a stare

• Bulgarian: втренчен поглед (vtrenčen pogled)
• Danish: gennemborende blik
• Finnish: vihainen tuijotus, vihainen katse, mulkoilu
• Galician: relance m, olleirada f, olladela f, fitada f
• German: entrüstetes Starren
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: súil fhiata f, drochshúil f
• Italian: frecciata (it) f
• Spanish: mirada fulminante
• Welsh: hylldrem f

Verb

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.

   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

   • (Can we date this quote by Byron and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon

2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

Coordinate terms

• scowl

Derived terms

• aglare
• glaringly
• glare filter

Translations

to stare angrily

• Bulgarian: гледам втренчено (gledam vtrenčeno)
• Danish: stirre, glo
• Finnish: tuijottaa vihaisesti, mulkoilla (fi), mulkaista (fi)
• German: missbilligend anstarren
• Hindi: तरेरना (hi) (tarernā)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whakakarukaru, hīnana, koira, whākanakana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stirre (no), glo (no), skule (no)

• Portuguese: fulminar com os olhos

shine

• Danish: skinne, blænde
• Finnish: paistaa (fi), kiiltää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: brilhar (pt), reluzir (pt)

Adjective

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

   skating on glare ice

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, lager, large, regal

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish glór.

Noun

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

1. speech
2. language, parlance
3. utterance

Derived terms

• glare-vroghe
• glareydagh (“linguistic; linguist”)
• lioar-ghlare (“literary language”)
• neughlaragh (“voiceless”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
glare	ghlare	nglare
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.