(v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
(v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
(v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
(n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
(n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
(n.) Leaf of lard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regarding psoriasis, emotional factors have a strong correlation with onset and flare-ups.
(2) A definite dose-response relationship was demonstrated between the weal and flare areas and the three active treatments.
(3) Pretreatment with terfenadine 60 mg orally significantly inhibited the flare response to both the lower dose of antigen and to saline (P less than 0.05).
(4) Although the area of flare increased with each increase in dose from 0.1 to 10 micrograms, the areas of flare produced by 10 and 100 micrograms of histamine did not differ.
(5) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
(6) There was no clinically relevant difference between the effects of the two routes of administration on flare area.
(7) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
(8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
(9) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
(10) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
(11) Aqueous cells and flare of both eyes were measured by a laser flare-cell meter (KOWA FC 100).
(12) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(13) Both patients with previous infection of the bone had flare up of the infection which was controlled medically.
(14) After prednisone was started the total serum IgE sharply declined to a plateau and remained at this level until a flare of allergic aspergillosis occurred.
(15) The test result correlated with the activity of the disease when repeated during a flare in the 1st case, and during remission in both.
(16) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
(17) Hydroxychloroquine has now clearly been shown to prevent flares, and ancrod has been shown to improve renal disease in patients with glomerular thrombosis.
(18) The flare response to SP following capsaicin- or bradykinin-induced desensitization gradually returned to normal after 5-8 weeks.
(19) Vladimir Putin claims Ebola virus vaccine has been developed by Russia Read more The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013, almost all of which were in Sierra Leone , Guinea and Liberia.
(20) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.
Glare
Definition:
(v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
(v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
(v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
(v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
(n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
(n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.
(n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
(n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
(n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is shocking is the number of them on NGO boards, and the glaring absence of so many other kinds of expertise.
(2) The Heliomat film viewer offers impressive reproductions of 100 mm film on a glare-free glass screen.
(3) On the other hand, the greater diastolic response and appearance of VES in night driving subgroups during glare suggest a greater sensitivity to the glare pressor test in these subjects.
(4) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
(5) When Donald Trump takes the Japanese prime minister , Shinzo Abe, to his resort at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend, eyebrows will rise – and not just because of the glaring conflict of interest in hosting a state visit at a flagship Trump property.
(6) In the course of this teamwork the deficiencies and drawbacks of hospitalisation legislation have become glaringly evident.
(7) The glaring inconsistency now so prevalent in the management of children must be countered by clear positive guidelines and by 'unifying principles' which are embodied in legislation.
(8) "Every bit of good news sends that team into decline," he said as he glared at the opposition leader "but I can tell him the good news is going to keep coming."
(9) Summer targets Our squad has the same glaring gaps as always.
(10) The most glaring outcome is that all the houses pay less tax in real terms today than they did in local rates a third of a century ago.
(11) Night and day glare sensitivity were each associated only with increased severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts (P less than or equal to 0.003) and with decreased visual acuity (P less than 0.001).
(12) With Altidore's lack of movement glaringly apparent, the crowd agitated for Steven Fletcher's liberation from the bench and, taking the hint, Sunderland's manager threw him on.
(13) Increased glare sensitivity diminishing the ability to drive under mesopic conditions can be due to scattered light produced by artificial lenses.
(14) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
(15) Ofsted said its inspectors had raised "glaringly serious" problems in Haringey's child protection regime with Shoesmith, despite her insistence that they were "never made clear" to her before the publication of the inspectors' report.
(16) As for Countryfile, Hunt personally oversaw the revamp: "Yes, we did change the presenting line-up, editorially, moving it from daytime to the glare of peak time.
(17) LogMAR visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and glare sensitivity measurements were made on 39 eyes of 18 cataractous subjects and compared against normative data.
(18) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
(19) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(20) Athlete Oscar Pistorius will be back in the glare of the world's media when his murder trial resumes on Monday but, in an unorthodox legal move, he will not be the first witness for his own defence.