Definition of Flare

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Definition of Flare

Flare

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.

To be exposed to too much light.

To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

An unsteady, broad, offensive light.

A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.

Leaf of lard.

A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative.

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Flare Quotations

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard

Flare Translations

flare in Afrikaans is flikker
flare in Dutch is flikkeren, flakkeren, schitteren
flare in French is ondoyer, vaciller
flare in Norwegian is bluss, flakke, blusse
flare in Portuguese is alargamento
flare in Spanish is bengala
flare in Swedish is flamma

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