What's the difference between glare and grin?

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.

Grin


Definition:

  • (n.) A snare; a gin.
  • (v. i.) To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.
  • (v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.
  • (v. t.) To express by grinning.
  • (n.) The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It is incredibly hard work," she says with a sly grin.
  • (2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (3) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
  • (4) Thank you for your encouragement and good wishes,” Ma Jing, the director general of CCTV America, told the president, flanked by a number of grinning American staff.
  • (5) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
  • (6) I have a self-satisfied grin just thinking about these expressions.
  • (7) People take pictures of themselves wherever they go, from cathedrals to airports to funerals , always the same face grinning at the camera.
  • (8) The thing that had me cracking up all night long is, I go through 20 years of everybody screaming to pass the ball,” Bryant said with a grin.
  • (9) Putin could have been forgiven for allowing himself a wry grin, as another court comprehensively trashed Berezovsky's reputation.
  • (10) The new No8 allowed a slight grin to creep over his face, seemingly struggling to contain his excitement.
  • (11) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
  • (12) Asked about his repeated gestures, grins and smirks towards the victims, she said it brought back memories of seeing him at Srebrenica.
  • (13) The final seconds of the movie are the most memorable, in which Smokey assures Big Worm he’s going to rehab, before hanging up the phone and lighting a joint with a mischievous grin to the camera.
  • (14) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
  • (15) "We couldn't believe our eyes," grinned Shamad, recalling the sight of Tunisia's ousted despot, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, fleeing a land he had ruled for 23 years.
  • (16) "I have no idea," Farage barked back with something between a grin and a scowl.
  • (17) During mimetic actions, such as wrinkling the forehead, closing the eyes, blinking, grinning and blowing out the cheeks, EMG from 16 disk electrodes were concurrently recorded from the frontalis, orbicularis oculi, and orbicularis oris muscles on both sides.
  • (18) We’ll definitely show that on the day.” There was a twinkle in his eye and a slight grin on his face but Bale, make no mistake, was deadly serious.
  • (19) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
  • (20) There are pictures of firefighters, policemen, soldiers and members of the public, some grinning and holding up placards celebrating Bin Laden's execution.