What's the difference between glare and glower?

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.

Glower


Definition:

  • (v. i.) to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thank you for the congratulations,” he repeated twice, glowering at the people he described, with no great affection, as his “friends in the media”.
  • (2) In a small side room at the Guardian, with Al Pacino glowering from a poster above us, James Corden is performing a masterclass in modesty.
  • (3) General elections, however, were the time when all the grand inquisitor's talents as cross-examiner came on full display, when the televsion public saw "the scowling, frowning, glowering" Robin Day "with those cruel glasses" (Frankie Howerd's description), as well as the relieving shafts of humour.
  • (4) But the events in Iran are a stark reminder of the glowering presence of religion on the world stage, not just in the form of al-Qaida-style fanaticism.
  • (5) We sit next to an enlarged version of the author photo, featuring Schaal and Blomquist lounging in white bathrobes, glowering sexily at the camera.
  • (6) Phil Collins, looking like a builder sent to do a final check on the Wembley rebuild, glowers at the crowd and says "fuck" during a venomous version of Invisible Touch.
  • (7) For a long time, it had felt as though it was shaping up to be the most satisfying result of Mourinho’s new employment, but ultimately it was another occasion of steep frustration for Manchester United and their glowering manager, and a reminder of why Arsenal have become so difficult to beat in 2016, with only one league defeat on their travels since the start of the year.
  • (8) Mind you, he would have glowered at anyone like that in the absence of his real enemy, Theresa May .
  • (9) The glowering presence of the European parliament is already having more of an impact as it insists Barnier takes a hard line.
  • (10) Nathaniel longed to be a writer, but confessed that even as he did so he felt the burden of ancestral disapproval glowering at him for being a mere "teller of stories".
  • (11) 4.48am BST Ooh, it's a montage Bang, punch, brass stab, lights, glower, sound bite, punch.
  • (12) Henceforward their threatening, glowering poses would provoke only derision.
  • (13) The Sunflower appeared four years back, blooming where previously the Tavern had glowered – one of the last pubs in Belfast to have Troubles-era security gates (“cages”) and cameras at its entrance.
  • (14) Or if you prefer pretty pictures to fine phrasing, you could always try and scroll through the glowering, brooding, posturing and relentless graphics of the obligatory All Access documentaries that Showtime have produced in the lead up to this one.
  • (15) Claire Danes is glowering at me through a subway window with a look in her eyes that makes me want to confess to crimes I never committed.
  • (16) They use my name to sell the festival,” he glowers.
  • (17) Neither I nor my wife, who was once a graduate student at Oriel, could recall the existence of a Rhodes statue at Oxford (though she vividly remembered a large portrait of Rhodes glowering down on students inside the college) – a reminder that imperial legacies are not necessarily less pernicious because they may be less obviously visible.
  • (18) "I am no rogue officer," he glowered, "nothing could be further from the truth."
  • (19) Their enormous fanbase marches over the hill to see them and promptly march away again, leaving Nine Inch Nails facing a half-empty field, helping Trent Reznor deliver a shortish but glowering, magnificent set perhaps aimed personally at whoever put them up against Disclosure .
  • (20) Haji-Ioannou's questions were read out by his spokesman Richard Shackleton, who appeared to be a little uncomfortable as the directors glowered at him from the podium.