Flare
noun
A sudden and brief burst of bright light.
A flare lit up the sky, illuminating the dark surroundings.
Often appears as...
- emergency flare
- signal flare
noun
A signal or device producing a bright light for use as a warning or help, especially on a road or in water.
The ship sent out distress flares to alert nearby boats of their situation.
Often appears as...
- distress flare
- road flare
noun
A sudden increase in intensity, like a disease or emotion.
Her anger flared at his arrogant remarks.
Often appears as...
- flare of anger
- flare of pain
verb
To burn with a sudden intensity or to suddenly become angry or more intense.
Tempers flared at the meeting.
Often appears as...
- flare up
- flare out
noun
A widening or spread outward.
The skirt has a slight flare towards the hem.
Often appears as...
- flare of the skirt
- nose flare
noun
A sudden and brief burst of bright light.
A flare lit up the sky, illuminating the dark surroundings.
Often appears as...
- emergency flare
- signal flare
noun
A signal or device producing a bright light for use as a warning or help, especially on a road or in water.
The ship sent out distress flares to alert nearby boats of their situation.
Often appears as...
- distress flare
- road flare
noun
A sudden increase in intensity, like a disease or emotion.
Her anger flared at his arrogant remarks.
Often appears as...
- flare of anger
- flare of pain
verb
To burn with a sudden intensity or to suddenly become angry or more intense.
Tempers flared at the meeting.
Often appears as...
- flare up
- flare out
noun
A widening or spread outward.
The skirt has a slight flare towards the hem.
Often appears as...
- flare of the skirt
- nose flare
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Pro Tip 1/2Brief Intensity
Use 'flare' to describe a light that quickly appears and then fades.
The fireworks ended with a dazzling flare.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphorical Use
'Flare' can metaphorically suggest something becoming noticeable.
Interest in the topic flared after the documentary.
Pro Tip 1/2Brief Intensity
Use 'flare' to describe a light that quickly appears and then fades.
The fireworks ended with a dazzling flare.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphorical Use
'Flare' can metaphorically suggest something becoming noticeable.
Interest in the topic flared after the documentary.
Pro Tip 1/2Brief Intensity
Use 'flare' to describe a light that quickly appears and then fades.
The fireworks ended with a dazzling flare.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphorical Use
'Flare' can metaphorically suggest something becoming noticeable.
Interest in the topic flared after the documentary.
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The design of the...
And the moon is only two seconds away, so if you take a picture of the moon using ordinary light, it's the moon two seconds ago, and who cares. Two seconds is like the present. The Sun is eight minutes ago. That's not such a big deal, right, unless there's solar flares coming then you want to get out the way. You'd like to have a little advance warning.
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What to do if you see a...
flares and then we can have a helicopter appear if they within 40 minutes one hour and they can chase the bear away and that's a much more desirable outcome than actually shooting a polar bear that's why the population is doing something so good up here so if you're out and about and do spot a polar bear the most important thing is
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Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
Most of the characteristic char-grilled taste doesn't come from the wood or the charcoal. Buying mesquite charcoal will not actually make that much difference. Mostly it comes from fat pyrolyzing, or burning. So it's the fat that drips down and flares up that causes the characteristic taste.
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Is the world getting...
can be cast a stirring narrative, and I hope that people with greater artistic flare and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril. I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying." No, liespotters are armed with scientific knowledge of how to spot deception. They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday;
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How brass instruments...
produce the different notes within it. And those notes finally emerge through the flared bell opening at the end. What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune.
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Martin Rees: Can we...
But I claim that B is incomparably worse. As an astronomer, I can't believe that humans are the end of the story. It is five billion years before the sun flares up, and the universe may go on forever, so post-human evolution,
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The Akune brothers:...
in Kagoshima for the first time in a decade, it was revealed that the two pairs had fought on opposing sides. Tempers flared and a fight almost broke out until their father stepped in. The brothers managed to make peace
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What if every satellite...
The first is a solar flare so strong it fries satellite circuitry– as well as many other devices and power grids around the world. And the second is an orbital chain reaction of collisions.
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Borneo: Paradise Under...
nice isn't it nice and big you know when it stands up with its hood flared it's my size because it can raise
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The design of the...
And the moon is only two seconds away, so if you take a picture of the moon using ordinary light, it's the moon two seconds ago, and who cares. Two seconds is like the present. The Sun is eight minutes ago. That's not such a big deal, right, unless there's solar flares coming then you want to get out the way. You'd like to have a little advance warning.
Video examples
What to do if you see a...
flares and then we can have a helicopter appear if they within 40 minutes one hour and they can chase the bear away and that's a much more desirable outcome than actually shooting a polar bear that's why the population is doing something so good up here so if you're out and about and do spot a polar bear the most important thing is
Video examples
Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
Most of the characteristic char-grilled taste doesn't come from the wood or the charcoal. Buying mesquite charcoal will not actually make that much difference. Mostly it comes from fat pyrolyzing, or burning. So it's the fat that drips down and flares up that causes the characteristic taste.
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Is the world getting...
can be cast a stirring narrative, and I hope that people with greater artistic flare and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril. I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying." No, liespotters are armed with scientific knowledge of how to spot deception. They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday;
Video examples
How brass instruments...
produce the different notes within it. And those notes finally emerge through the flared bell opening at the end. What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune.
Video examples
Martin Rees: Can we...
But I claim that B is incomparably worse. As an astronomer, I can't believe that humans are the end of the story. It is five billion years before the sun flares up, and the universe may go on forever, so post-human evolution,
Video examples
The Akune brothers:...
in Kagoshima for the first time in a decade, it was revealed that the two pairs had fought on opposing sides. Tempers flared and a fight almost broke out until their father stepped in. The brothers managed to make peace
Video examples
What if every satellite...
The first is a solar flare so strong it fries satellite circuitry– as well as many other devices and power grids around the world. And the second is an orbital chain reaction of collisions.
Video examples
Borneo: Paradise Under...
nice isn't it nice and big you know when it stands up with its hood flared it's my size because it can raise
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Lynda Resnick
American Businesswoman
Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.
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Charles Lindbergh
American Aviator
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
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Andre Drummond
American Athlete
Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.
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Richard Farnsworth
American Actor
But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
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Ginnifer Goodwin
American Actress
Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American Psychologist
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
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Georgina Bloomberg
American Celebrity
I really like to look professional but also have personal flare. You will never find me in head-to-toe designer - I like to mix it up.
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Sylvia Plath
American Poet
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
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Gaston Bachelard
French Philosopher
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Akhil Akkineni
American Actor
Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.
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Lynda Resnick
American Businesswoman
Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.
Quote examples
Charles Lindbergh
American Aviator
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
Quote examples
Andre Drummond
American Athlete
Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.
Quote examples
Richard Farnsworth
American Actor
But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
Quote examples
Ginnifer Goodwin
American Actress
Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
Quote examples
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American Psychologist
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
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Georgina Bloomberg
American Celebrity
I really like to look professional but also have personal flare. You will never find me in head-to-toe designer - I like to mix it up.
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Sylvia Plath
American Poet
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Quote examples
Gaston Bachelard
French Philosopher
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Quote examples
Akhil Akkineni
American Actor
Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.
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