1. glare - Noun
2. glare - Adjective
3. glare - Verb
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
A fierce, piercing look or stare.
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. James Thurber
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. George Washington
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. Helmut Jahn
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. Mary Lou Retton
Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. Alexander Maclaren