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Flared vs Broke - What's the difference?

flared | broke |

As verbs the difference between flared and broke

is that flared is (flare) while broke is (break) or broke can be to broker; to transact business for another.

As an adjective broke is

(informal) lacking money; bankrupt.

As a noun broke is

(papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

flared

English

Verb

(head)
  • (flare)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    flare

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
  • * 2003 , Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running , page 270:
  • The flare on the inside of the shoe resists ankle pronation;
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * lens flare * nonflared * parachute flare * unflared

    Verb

  • To blaze brightly.
  • The blast furnace flared in the night.
  • To burn unsteadily.
  • The candle flared in a sudden draught.
  • (intransitive) To open outward in shape.
  • 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 .
  • 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
  • With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.
  • (obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
  • * Prior
  • flaring in sunshine all the day

    Derived terms

    * flare up

    Anagrams

    * ----

    broke

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt
  • (informal) Broken.
  • Synonyms

    * boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
  • *1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:
  • *:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
  • *1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:
  • *:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
  • *2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :
  • *:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (break)
  • (archaic, or, poetic)
  • * 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
  • Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
  • # (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.
  • Verb

    (brok)
  • To broker; to transact business for another.
  • (Brome)
  • (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
  • * Fanshawe
  • We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.