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flare

[flair]

verb, flared, flar⋅ing, noun

–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 fol. by up): The fire flared up as the paper caught.

3.	to start up or burst out in sudden, fierce activity, passion, etc. (often fol. by up or out): Tempers flared at the meeting. Violence flared up in a new section of the city.

4.	to shine or glow.

5.	to spread gradually outward, as the end of a trumpet, the bottom of a wide skirt, or the sides of a ship.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to cause (a candle, torch, etc.) to burn with a swaying flame.

7.	to display conspicuously or ostentatiously.

8.	to signal by flares of fire or light.

9.	to cause (something) to spread gradually outward in form.

10.	Metallurgy. to heat (a high-zinc brass) to such a high temperature that the zinc vapors begin to burn.

11.	to discharge and burn (excess gas) at a well or refinery.

–noun

12.	a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind.

13.	a sudden blaze or burst of flame.

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

15.	a device or substance used to produce such a blaze of fire or light.

16.	a sudden burst, as of zeal or of anger.

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

18.	something that spreads out.

19.	Optics. unwanted light reaching the image plane of an optical instrument, resulting from extraneous reflections, scattering by lenses, and the like.

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

21.	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.

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

23.	Television. a dark area on a picture tube caused by variations in light intensity.

—Verb phrase

24.	flare out or up, to become suddenly enraged: She flares up easily.

Origin:
1540–50; orig. meaning: spread out, said of hair, a ship's sides, etc.; cf. OE flǣre either of the spreading sides at the end of the nose

Synonyms:
1. flame. 3. erupt, explode, flash, blaze, flame. 13. flash.

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flare (flâr)

v. flared, flar·ing, flares

v. intr.

To flame up with a bright, wavering light.
To burst into intense, sudden flame.
1. To erupt or intensify suddenly: Tempers flared at the meeting. His allergies flared up.
2. To become suddenly angry. Used with up: He flared up when she alluded to his financial difficulties.
3. To make a sudden angry verbal attack. Used with out: flared out at his accusers.
To expand or open outward in shape: a skirt that flares from the waist; nostrils that flared with anger.

v. tr.

A brief wavering blaze of light.
A device that produces a bright light for signaling, illumination, or identification.
An outbreak, as of emotion or activity.
An expanding or opening outward.
An unwanted reflection within an optical system or the resultant fogging of the image.
A solar flare.
1. Football A short pass to a back running toward the sideline.
2. Baseball A fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield.
Medicine An area of redness on the skin surrounding the primary site of infection or irritation.

[Origin unknown.]

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