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Glare vs Scintillate - What's the difference?

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Glare is a related term of scintillate.


In lang=en terms the difference between glare and scintillate

is that glare is to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light while scintillate is to throw off like sparks.

As verbs the difference between glare and scintillate

is that glare is to stare angrily while scintillate is to give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.

As a noun glare

is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light.

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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    scintillate

    English

    Verb

    (scintillat)
  • To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
  • To throw off like sparks.