What's the difference between flare and glow?

Flare


Definition:

  • (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.

Glow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
  • (v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
  • (v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • (v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
  • (v. t.) To make hot; to flush.
  • (n.) White or red heat; incandscence.
  • (n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
  • (n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
  • (n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) We also remind them that negative feedback is as important as glowing praise.
  • (3) This procedure has been implemented in a computer program which performs the automatic evaluation of the glow curves and extracts the dose information contained in the PTTL curves.
  • (4) Draghi's action received a glowing critical reception across Europe .
  • (5) In bone tissue, so far, positive effects of glow discharge have not been reported.
  • (6) And these night scenes glow with subtle, vibrant colour.
  • (7) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
  • (8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (9) Plasma polymerized ethylene (PPE), styrene (PPS), and chlorotrifluoroethylene (PPCTFE) were synthesized by exposing the monomeric gases to an inductively coupled radio frequency "glow-discharge" field.
  • (10) We hope there is a post-Commonwealth Games glow with the home nations doing so well, but first and foremost it is an entertainment show."
  • (11) Under more drastic conditions (higher temperatures and flowing air), glow occurred in several instances resulting in an increased production oxidation products as represented by CO2, COS, SO2, HCOOH, and CH3COOH, among others.
  • (12) Investigations of the functions cited in the title were performed in 23 persons with a normal visual system in conditions of equal illumination, first the glow and the next day or later--the sodium one.
  • (13) These surface treatments allowed testing of the same basic material which was mill-finished, metallurgically polished, electrochemically oxidized, sintered with a porous surface, and glow-discharged.
  • (14) Hence the new "tradition" of each party leader producing a mute but glamorous wife for a postcoital glow after a speech.
  • (15) In fact, the numbers were much worse that predicted, and ensured the would be no post-convention glow for Obama.
  • (16) An attempt was made to graft the monomer HEMA to the polymer surface by "Glow discharge" technique.
  • (17) Referring to the spirit generated by the London Olympics, he said: "It would have been much more threatening to us if it had all been about the positive, warm glow of 2012, then the first world war commemorations – 300 years of kinship and family ties."
  • (18) The mountains are glowing red and it will be a good harvest,” she predicted.
  • (19) Everything is conforming nicely to my expectation that this will all be a disappointment, but then news comes of glowing press, a five-star review, bigger, louder buzz, and comparisons of the film with Billy Wilder and the screwball comedies of the 40s and 50s.
  • (20) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.