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Glare vs Moonbeam - What's the difference?

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Glare is a related term of moonbeam.


As nouns the difference between glare and moonbeam

is that glare is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light while moonbeam is a shaft of moonlight;webster's college dictionary , random house, 2001.

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

    * * * * * ----

    moonbeam

    English

    Noun

  • A shaft of moonlight;Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , author = , title = , year = 1850 , page = 70 , passage = A moonbeam pierced the heavy cloud! }}
  • Moonlight generally.
  • Synonyms

    * moon ray

    See also

    * sunbeam

    References