ALL meanings of flares
flare
F f - verb without object flares to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind. 1
- verb without object flares to blaze with a sudden burst of flame (often followed by up): The fire flared up as the paper caught. 1
- verb without object flares 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 flares 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 flares to shine or glow. 1
- verb without object flares 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 flares to cause (a candle, torch, etc.) to burn with a swaying flame. 1
- verb with object flares to display conspicuously or ostentatiously. 1
- verb with object flares to signal by flares of fire or light. 1
- verb with object flares to cause (something) to spread gradually outward in form. 1
- verb with object flares Metallurgy. to heat (a high-zinc brass) to such a high temperature that the zinc vapors begin to burn. 1
- verb with object flares to discharge and burn (excess gas) at a well or refinery. 1
- noun flares a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind. 1
- noun flares a sudden blaze or burst of flame. 1
- noun flares a bright blaze of fire or light used as a signal, a means of illumination or guidance, etc. 1
- noun flares a device or substance used to produce such a blaze of fire or light. 1
- noun flares a sudden burst, as of zeal or of anger. 1
- noun flares a gradual spread outward in form; outward curvature: the flare of a skirt. 1
- noun flares something that spreads out. 1
- noun flares 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 flares Photography. a fogged appearance given to an image by reflection within a camera lens or within the camera itself. 1
- noun flares 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 flares Football. a short pass thrown to a back who is running toward a sideline and is not beyond the line of scrimmage. 1
- noun flares Television. a dark area on a CRT picture tube caused by variations in light intensity. 1
- noun flares Plural form of flare. 1
- noun plural flares trousers with legs that widen below the knee 0
- noun flares plural of flare. 0
- noun flares (plural only) flare-bottomed pants. 0
- verb flares third-person singular simple present indicative form of flare. 0