glare
nomverbeadjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɡlɛə//
- États-Unis//ɡlɛɚ//
- Australie//ɡleː//
- Nouvelle-Zélande//ɡleə//
An intense, blinding light.
nom
- 1
An intense, blinding light.
the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
- 2
Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- 3
An angry or fierce stare.
About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
- 4
A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
- 5
A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
a glare of ice
- 6
A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
Étymologie
From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
verbe
- 1
To stare angrily.
He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]
- 2
To shine brightly.
The sun glared down on the desert sand.
The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
- 3
To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
- 4
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
adjectif
- 1
smooth and bright or translucent; glary
skating on glare ice
Formes
- pluriel
- glares
- comparatif
- more glare
- superlatif
- most glare
- passé
- glared
- participe passé
- glared
- participe présent
- glaring
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- glares