different between aglare vs glare

English

Etymology

a- (“on, in”) +? glare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

aglare (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Glaring (either verb sense)
   • 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45,^[1]

     A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds,

     His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,

   • 1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4,^[2]

     So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s,

     Not seen to blaze

     With dreadful majesty aglare,

     And vengeance sleeps, mankind

     Pursues its darling joys, and mocks

     The pow’r divine […]

   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies, London: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 82,^[3]

     Apodaca set fire to his ships […] At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.

   • 1898, Henry A. Castle, “The Army Mule” in The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches, Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, p. 29,^[4]

     His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.

   • 2009, Thomas Fuller, “A Legendary River Changed by Asian Ambition,” New York Times, 18 December, 2009,^[5]

     Many parts of the Mekong were once a star-gazer’s dream; now nights on the river are increasingly aglare with electricity.

Anagrams

• alegar, laager

English

Etymology

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *gl???n. 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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.

   • the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
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.

   a glare of ice

6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

Translations

Verb

glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.

   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. (intransitive) 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. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

Coordinate terms

• scowl

Derived terms

• aglare
• glaringly
• glare filter

Translations

Adjective

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

   skating on glare ice

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, lager, large, regal

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish glór.

Noun

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

1. speech
2. language, parlance
3. utterance

Derived terms

• glare-vroghe
• glareydagh (“linguistic; linguist”)
• lioar-ghlare (“literary language”)
• neughlaragh (“voiceless”)

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