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Glare vs Grower - What's the difference?

glare | grower |

As nouns the difference between glare and grower

is that glare is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light while grower is a farmer; one who grows things.

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

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    grower

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A farmer; one who grows things.
  • He was an orange grower from Florida.
  • Something that grows.
  • These flowers are fast growers
  • *
  • Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time
  • I didn't like the song at first, but it is a real grower .
  • (slang) A man whose penis does not show its full size until it is erect.
  • Antonyms

    * (man whose penis is smaller when flaccid) shower

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