glare

«glare» in Mova's school dictionary: To look at someone in an angry way for a while — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (glare, glares, glared, glaring); noun (a glare; glare)

meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To look at someone in an angry way for a while. tree →

2) (noun) An angry look. tree →

3) (noun) A strong, bright light that hurts the eyes. tree →

4) (verb) To shine with a very strong light. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories: «The teacher glared at the noisy class» shows anger without words. In science and safety: glare from the Sun or snow can hurt your eyes; sunglasses reduce glare. Phrase: «in the glare of publicity» = with everyone watching.

examples

• The teacher glared at the boys who were talking. tree →
• She gave him an angry glare. tree →
• The glare from the snow made me squint. tree →
• Sunglasses cut down the glare. tree →
• The sun glared down on the beach. tree →
• He glared at his brother across the table. tree →
• Headlight glare can dazzle drivers. tree →
• He now began to glare at the others very savagely. tree →

note

Regular verb: glared. Adjective: glaring (very obvious: «a glaring mistake»). Glare (angry stare) is stronger than stare. Safety: never look straight at the Sun.

In the corpora

• The black mask round a raccoon's eyes may reduce glare and help it see at night, though scientists are not completely sure.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «glare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.