Definitions for flare

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flare flare

Spelling: [flair]

IPA: /flɛər/

Flare is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in flare (aeflr).

Definitions for flare

noun

1. a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind.
2. a sudden blaze or burst of flame.
3. a bright blaze of fire or light used as a signal, a means of illumination or guidance, etc.
4. a device or substance used to produce such a blaze of fire or light.
5. a sudden burst, as of zeal or of anger.
6. a gradual spread outward in form; outward curvature:
7. something that spreads out.
8. Optics. light, often unwanted or extraneous, reaching the image plane of an optical instrument, as a camera, resulting from reflections, scattering by lenses, and the like.
9. Photography. a fogged appearance given to an image by reflection within a camera lens or within the camera itself.
10. Also called solar flare. Astronomy. a sudden and brief brightening of the solar atmosphere in the vicinity of a sunspot that results from an explosive release of particles and radiation.
11. Football. a short pass thrown to a back who is running toward a sideline and is not beyond the line of scrimmage.
12. Television. a dark area on a CRT picture tube caused by variations in light intensity.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (a candle, torch, etc.) to burn with a swaying flame.
2. to display conspicuously or ostentatiously.
3. to signal by flares of fire or light.
4. to cause (something) to spread gradually outward in form.
5. Metallurgy. to heat (a high-zinc brass) to such a high temperature that the zinc vapors begin to burn.
6. to discharge and burn (excess gas) at a well or refinery.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
2. to blaze with a sudden burst of flame (often followed by up):
3. to start up or burst out in sudden, fierce intensity or activity (often followed by up):
4. to become suddenly enraged; express sudden, fierce anger or passion (usually followed by up or out):
5. to shine or glow.
6. to spread gradually outward, as the end of a trumpet, the bottom of a wide skirt, or the sides of a ship.

Origin of flare

1540-50; original meaning: spread out, said of hair, a ship's sides, etc.; compare Old English flǣre either of the spreading sides at the end of the nose

Examples for flare

In the most casual conversation, she seems to flare at warp-speed.

If I should try just once to tell her what she ought to do she'd flare up like a bonfire.

There was also a 37mm flare launcher, a replica of a M203 grenade launcher.

She said she first learned of the current flare up by seeing tweets from the IDF spokesperson's Twitter account.

The flare, they said, was caused by the release of another meteor!

The issue would flare up, then die down, then flare up again.

There was the flare of a match, and he sat back again, exhaling a long puff.

Her doctor told me the financial and family stress in her life had caused her MS to flare and left her vulnerable.

She appeared to struggle against a flare of her old rebellious spirit.

Then he remembered that the flare might have scorched her face, and expressed his concern.