Flare vs Burst - What's the difference?
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A source of brightly burning light or intense heat used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
* 2010 , James Fleming, Cold Blood
*:...when the soldiers openly laughed at him, I knew he was in the bag. While he was putting on the snowplough, the Whites shot up a flare to see what was happening.
*, chapter=7
, title= A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
* 2003 , Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running , page 270:
(aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders
A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad, a fusee.
To blaze brightly.
To burn unsteadily.
(intransitive) To open outward in shape.
To cause to burn.
To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
* Prior
An instance of, or the act of bursting .
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
To break from internal pressure.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To cause to break from internal pressure.
(obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
* Shakespeare
* Fairfax
To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
In intransitive terms the difference between flare and burst
is that flare is to burn unsteadily while burst is to enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.In transitive terms the difference between flare and burst
is that flare is to cause to burn while burst is to produce as an effect of bursting.flare
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
- The flare on the inside of the shoe resists ankle pronation;
Derived terms
* lens flare * nonflared * parachute flare * unflaredVerb
- The blast furnace flared in the night.
- The candle flared in a sudden draught.
- The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air.
- The cat's nostrils flared when it sniffed at the air.
- The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza.
- The sides of a bowl flare .
- With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.
- flaring in sunshine all the day
Derived terms
* flare upAnagrams
* ----burst
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(wikipedia burst)Noun
(en noun)- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
Derived terms
* cloudburstVerb
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- to burst a hole through the wall