Glare vs Reflection - What's the difference?
glare | reflection |
(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 reflecting or the state of being reflected.
The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
(senseid) Careful thought or consideration.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}
An implied criticism.
(label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
As nouns the difference between glare and reflection
is that glare is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light while reflection is the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.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.