Flare

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To flame up with a bright, wavering light.
  • verb-intransitive. To burst into intense, sudden flame.
  • verb-intransitive. To erupt or intensify suddenly: Tempers flared at the meeting. His allergies flared up.
  • verb-intransitive. To become suddenly angry. Used with up: He flared up when she alluded to his financial difficulties.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a sudden angry verbal attack. Used with out: flared out at his accusers.
  • verb-intransitive. To expand or open outward in shape: a skirt that flares from the waist; nostrils that flared with anger.
  • v. To cause to flame up.
  • v. To signal with a blaze of light.
  • n. A brief wavering blaze of light.
  • n. A device that produces a bright light for signaling, illumination, or identification.
  • n. An outbreak, as of emotion or activity.
  • n. An expanding or opening outward.
  • n. An unwanted reflection within an optical system or the resultant fogging of the image.
  • n. A solar flare.
  • n. Football A short pass to a back running toward the sideline.
  • n. Baseball A fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield.
  • n. Medicine An area of redness on the skin surrounding the primary site of infection or irritation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A brightly burning light used to attract attention in an emergency, or to illuminate an area.
  • n. A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width, e.g. on the lower legs of trousers and jeans.
  • n. The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
  • n. A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders
  • n. An aircraft-released countermeasure to counter an infrared-homing missile.
  • v. To blaze brightly.
  • v. To burn unsteadily.
  • v. To burst out suddenly, as in anger.
  • v. To open outward in shape.
  • v. To cause to burn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame.
  • verb-intransitive. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
  • verb-intransitive. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
  • verb-intransitive. To be exposed to too much light.
  • verb-intransitive. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular
  • n. An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
  • n. A spreading outward.
  • n. A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative.
  • n. Leaf of lard.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shine out with sudden and unsteady light, luster, or splendor; give out a dazzling light.
  • To waver; flutter; burn with an unsteady light, as flame in a current of air; hence, to flutter, as such flame does; flutter with gaudy show.
  • To open or spread outward, like the mouth of a trumpet.
  • To incline outward from a perpendicular, as a ship's sides or bows, or any similar formation: opposed to tumble home.
  • To cause to burn with a flaring flame; hence, to display glaringly; exhibit in an ostentatious manner.
  • n. A glaring, unsteady, wavering light; a glare: as, the flare of an expiring candle.
  • n. A spreading outward; a terminal or a continuous broadening, as of a trumpet or a lily, the side of a vessel of any kind, etc.
  • n. In photography, same as ghost, 8.
  • n. Ostentation.
  • n. Synonyms Glare, etc. See flame, n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a sudden outburst of emotion
  • n. a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
  • n. (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
  • v. burn brightly
  • v. become flared and widen, usually at one end
  • n. a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
  • n. a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
  • n. am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
  • n. a shape that spreads outward
  • n. a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
  • v. shine with a sudden light
  • n. a sudden burst of flame
  • n. reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
  • v. erupt or intensify suddenly
  • n. a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
  • Verb Form
    flared    flares    flaring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blowup    ebullition    outburst    effusion    gush    solar radiation    fly    fly ball    burn    combust   
    Cross Reference
    display    to flare up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flaunt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flash    flicker    spark    blaze    explosion    glow    surge    glare    ray    streak