Flareth vs Glareth - What's the difference?
flareth | glareth |
(archaic) (flare)
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
(glare)
(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
* Dryden
Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
An angry or fierce stare.
* Milton
(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 viscous, transparent substance; glair.
To stare angrily.
* Byron
To shine brightly.
* Dryden
To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
* Alexander Pope
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between flareth and glareth
is that flareth is (archaic) (flare) while glareth is (glare).flareth
English
Verb
(head)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
* ----glareth
English
Verb
(head)glare
English
Noun
(en noun)- the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
- About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare .
- a glare of ice
Verb
(glar)- He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
- The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
- She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
- Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
