Glare vs Ray - 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
A beam of light or radiation.
(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
(botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
* Alexander Pope
(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
(colloquial) A tiny amount.
To emit something as if in rays.
To radiate as if in rays
(obsolete) To arrange.
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.4:
The name of the letter ?/?, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
* Spenser
Glare is a related term of ray.
As a noun glare
is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light.As a verb glare
is to stare angrily.As an adjective glare
is (us|of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary.As a proper noun ray is
from a (etyl) nickname meaning a king or a roe.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.
Derived terms
* aglare * glaringly * glare filterAnagrams
* * * * * ----ray
English
Etymology 1
Via (etyl), from (etyl) rai, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
- Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope .
Derived terms
* death ray * gamma ray * manta ray * ray gun * stingray * X-rayVerb
(en verb)- (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Etymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m).Etymology 3
Shortened from array.Verb
(en verb)- From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And form his face the filth that did it ray .
Etymology 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
Noun
(-)- And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray .