glare

Etymology

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

noun

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
   a glare of ice
6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

verb

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.
   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
   Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.] 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110
2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.
   The sun glared down on the desert sand.
3. (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

adj

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary
   skating on glare ice