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flare(1) (iou)



flare noun1. E19.
[from the verb.]
The action or quality of flaring; a dazzling irregular light; a sudden outburst of light or flame. E19.
Tolkien Many of them carried torches, and in the flare I could see their faces.
b. fig. A dazzling display; a sudden outburst of emotion etc.; a sudden or loud noise. M19.
H. E. Bates She got up with a flare of energy..almost running. Daily Telegraph Amid a flare of trumpets, the procession returned.
c. Astronomy. A sudden outburst of radiation from the sun (freq. solar flare) or a star. M20.
Photography. Extraneous illumination of the film, due to internal reflections etc. M19.
A gradual swell or bulging outward (orig. in Shipbuilding); a gradual widening or spreading outward (esp. of a skirt etc.); that part which widens or spreads; (in pl.) flared trousers. M19.
J. Agee A woman..her face narrow beneath her flare of sunbonnet.
b. Aeronautics. A lessening of the steepness of the glide path of an aircraft about to land. Also flare-out. M20.
(A device giving off) a bright flame, used as a signal or as illumination of a target etc.; a flame of burning waste gas from an oil-well etc. L19.
S. Gibbons The wickering hissing of the gas flares which lit the hall and cast sharp shadows. Lifeboat His yacht..was now in distress and firing flares.
Comb.: flare-path an area illuminated to guide aircraft in landing or taking off; flare star Astronomy a star in which flares occur from time to time.
flareless adjective M20.