Flare meanings. All definitions of Flare

verb without object flare to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind. 1

verb without object flare to blaze with a sudden burst of flame (often followed by up): The fire flared up as the paper caught. 1

verb without object flare to start up or burst out in sudden, fierce intensity or activity (often followed by up): His stomach problems have flared up. 1

verb without object flare to become suddenly enraged; express sudden, fierce anger or passion (usually followed by up or out): I’m not a person who flares easily. She sometimes flares out at the kids. 1

verb without object flare to shine or glow. 1

verb without object flare to spread gradually outward, as the end of a trumpet, the bottom of a wide skirt, or the sides of a ship. 1

verb with object flare to cause (a candle, torch, etc.) to burn with a swaying flame. 1

verb with object flare to display conspicuously or ostentatiously. 1

verb with object flare to signal by flares of fire or light. 1

verb with object flare to cause (something) to spread gradually outward in form. 1

verb with object flare Metallurgy. to heat (a high-zinc brass) to such a high temperature that the zinc vapors begin to burn. 1

verb with object flare to discharge and burn (excess gas) at a well or refinery. 1

noun flare a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind. 1

noun flare a sudden blaze or burst of flame. 1

noun flare a bright blaze of fire or light used as a signal, a means of illumination or guidance, etc. 1

noun flare a device or substance used to produce such a blaze of fire or light. 1

noun flare a sudden burst, as of zeal or of anger. 1

noun flare a gradual spread outward in form; outward curvature: the flare of a skirt. 1

noun flare something that spreads out. 1

noun flare 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. 1

noun flare Photography. a fogged appearance given to an image by reflection within a camera lens or within the camera itself. 1

noun flare 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. 1

noun flare Football. a short pass thrown to a back who is running toward a sideline and is not beyond the line of scrimmage. 1

noun flare Television. a dark area on a CRT picture tube caused by variations in light intensity. 1

noun flare burst of light 1

noun flare distress signal: flame 1

noun plural flare wide-bottomed trousers 1

intransitive verb flare blaze brightly 1

intransitive verb flare violence: erupt 1

intransitive verb flare widen at one end 1

intransitive verb flare nostrils: open wide 1

noun flare Burn with a sudden intensity. 1

countable noun flare A flare is a small device that produces a bright flame. Flares are used as signals, for example on ships. 0

verb flare If a fire flares, the flames suddenly become larger. 0

verb flare Flare up means the same as flare. 0

verb flare If something such as trouble, violence, or conflict flares, it starts or becomes more violent. 0

verb flare If people's tempers flare, they get angry. 0

verb flare If someone's nostrils flare or if they flare them, their nostrils become wider, often because the person is angry or upset. 0

verb flare If something such as a dress flares, it spreads outwards at one end to form a wide shape. 0

noun plural flare Flares are trousers that are very wide at the bottom. 0

verb flare to burn or cause to burn with an unsteady or sudden bright flame 0

verb flare to spread or cause to spread outwards from a narrow to a wider shape 0

verb flare to make a conspicuous display of 0

verb flare to increase the temperature of (a molten metal or alloy) until a gaseous constituent of the melt burns with a characteristic flame or (of a molten metal or alloy) to show such a flame 0

verb flare (in the oil industry) to burn off (unwanted gas) at an oil well 0

noun flare an unsteady flame 0

noun flare a sudden burst of flame 0

noun flare a blaze of light or fire used to illuminate, identify, alert, signal distress, etc 0

noun flare the device producing such a blaze 0

noun flare a spreading shape or anything with a spreading shape 0

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