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Glare vs Contrast - What's the difference?

glare | contrast |

In lang=en terms the difference between glare and contrast

is that glare is to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light while contrast is to form a contrast.

As nouns the difference between glare and contrast

is that glare is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light while contrast is (label) a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

As verbs the difference between glare and contrast

is that glare is to stare angrily while contrast is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

As an adjective glare

is (us|of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary.

glare

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
  • * Dryden
    • the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
  • Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
  • An angry or fierce stare.
  • * Milton
    • About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare .
  • (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
  • (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
    • a glare of ice
  • A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

    • Verb

    (glar)
  • To stare angrily.
    • He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
  • * Byron
    • an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
  • To shine brightly.
    • The sun glared down on the desert sand.
  • * Dryden
    • The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
  • To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
  • To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
  • * Milton
    • Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

    Derived terms

    * aglare * glaringly * glare filter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary
    • skating on glare ice

    Anagrams

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    contrast

    English

    Noun

  • (label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
  • #(label) The degree of this difference.
  • #:
  • #(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  • (label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
  • :
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast : Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
  • Antithesis.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  • To form a contrast.
    • Foreground and background strongly contrast .
  • * Lyell
    • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

    Derived terms

    * contrasting

    See also

    * compare English heteronyms