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Glare vs Fulmination - What's the difference?

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Glare is a related term of fulmination.


As nouns the difference between glare and fulmination

is that glare is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light while fulmination is the act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

As a verb glare

is to stare angrily.

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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    fulmination

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
  • The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
  • *1919 , H. L. Mencken, The American Language ,
  • *:It is curious, reading the fulminations of American purists of the last generation, to note how many of the Americanisms they denounced have not only got into perfectly good usage at home but even broken down all guards across the ocean.
  • That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.