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Glare vs Sunbeam - What's the difference?

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Glare is a related term of sunbeam.


As nouns the difference between glare and sunbeam

is that glare is (uncountable) an intense, blinding light while sunbeam is a visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.

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)
  • (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

    Anagrams

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    sunbeam

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
  • * 1957 , (Rudolf Arnheim), Film as Art , page 90,
    • I cut-in various other material to this; for instance, a shot of a rushing brook in springtime, with dancing sunbeams reflected in the water; of birds splashing in the village pond; and, finally, of a laughing child.
  • * 2001 , Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science , page 116,
    • Similarly, the rays diverging from the sun will pass by you and converge on the point directly opposite the sun, the shadow of your head. All sunbeams', and thus all shadows, appear to converge there.Only perspective makes all shadows appear to converge on the antisolar point. But this point is also the center of the rainbow, so as you look at the rainbow, all ' sunbeams and shadows will lie along radii of the bow as they flow straight to its center.
  • * 2008 (1952), , Roger Greaves (translator), The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt , ISBN 978-0-52025790-0, page 68,
    • I had frequently had to explain to cameramen that only in the early morning or late in the evening did sunbeams' fall from the window as flat as they were usually found in films. The sun being higher during the hours of work, another way of showing ' sunbeams had to be found.
  • (Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.“sunbeam ,” 2011 February, Oxford Australia Word of the month
  • Any butterfly of the genus .
  • Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis .

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