Glare vs Squint - What's the difference?
glare | squint |
(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
(lb) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) To look or glance sideways.
(lb) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(lb) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
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An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
(senseid)A quick or sideways glance.
A short look.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A hagioscope.
(radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
In intransitive terms the difference between glare and squint
is that glare is to shine brightly while squint is to look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.In transitive terms the difference between glare and squint
is that glare is to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light while squint is to turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.As an adjective glare
is 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.
Derived terms
* aglare * glaringly * glare filterAnagrams
* * * * * ----squint
English
Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint .
- --And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
- --Give us a squint at her, says I.