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Sunshine vs Glare - What's the difference?

sunshine | glare |

As nouns the difference between sunshine and glare

is that sunshine is the direct rays, light or warmth of the sun while glare is an intense, blinding light.

As adjectives the difference between sunshine and glare

is that sunshine is open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings while glare is smooth and bright or translucent; glary.

As a verb glare is

to stare angrily.

sunshine

English

Noun

(-)
  • The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
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  • A location on which the sun's rays fall.
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  • *:Out again into the sunshine by the wide mouth of the Green River, as the chart named the brook whose level stream scarce moved into the lake. A streak of blue shot up it between the banks, and a shrill pipe came back as the kingfisher hastened away.
  • Geniality or cheerfulness.
  • :
  • A source of cheerfulness or joy.
  • The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
  • (lb)
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  • (lb)
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  • (lb) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
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    • Synonyms

    * (light from the sun ): sunlight

    Derived terms

    * sunshiny * sunshineless

    Related terms

    * sunbeam

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.

    • Derived terms

    (permitting public access) * sunshine agenda * sunshine law

    References

    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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