glare
substantivoverboadjetivoatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ɡlɛə//
- Estados Unidos//ɡlɛɚ//
- Austrália//ɡleː//
- Nova Zelândia//ɡleə//
An intense, blinding light.
substantivo
- 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.
Etimologia
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.
verbo
- 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.
adjetivo
- 1
smooth and bright or translucent; glary
skating on glare ice
Formas
- plural
- glares
- comparativo
- more glare
- superlativo
- most glare
- pretérito
- glared
- particípio passado
- glared
- gerúndio
- glaring
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- glares