Glare vs Moonbeam - What's the difference?
glare | moonbeam | Related terms |
(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
A shaft of moonlight;Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001.
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Moonlight generally.
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)- 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.