Frown vs Glare - What's the difference?
frown | glare |
A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration.
To have a on one's face.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
* Shakespeare
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
(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
In intransitive terms the difference between frown and glare
is that frown is to manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly while glare is to shine brightly.In transitive terms the difference between frown and glare
is that frown is to repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look while glare is to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.As an adjective glare is
smooth and bright or translucent; glary.frown
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* permafrownVerb
(en verb)- Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.
- The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.
- Frown the impudent fellow into silence.
Derived terms
* frown at * frown on * frown uponglare
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.