Definition of "glare"

glare

/ɡlɛɚ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural glares
1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
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  the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
  1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
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  About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
verb
third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared
1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.
  Quotations
  eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
  1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], stanza XXXIX
  Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]
  1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110
2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.
  Quotations
  The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
3. (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
  Quotations
  She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
  18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount
4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
  Quotations
  Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
adjective
comparative more glare, superlative most glare
1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

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