Glare vs Fulmination - What's the difference?
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(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
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.
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)- 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.