Glare vs Scintillate - What's the difference?
glare | scintillate | 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
To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
To throw off like sparks.
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)- 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.