What's the difference between glare and stare?

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.

Stare


Definition:

  • (n.) The starling.
  • (v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
  • (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
  • (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
  • (v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
  • (n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
  • (3) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (4) You're staring at the five-figure pay cheque you'll get… if… If!
  • (5) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
  • (6) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
  • (7) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
  • (8) Or are we too immature to see what is staring us in the face?
  • (9) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (10) 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?
  • (11) More than a third of children in Sweden's cities complain that their parents spend too much time staring at phones and tablet computers, leading doctors in the country to warn that children may be suffering emotional and cognitive damage.
  • (12) We’d get recognised when we went out, and I developed a bad crick in my spine because I was staring at the pavement so much.
  • (13) If someone you know from around the corner says it’s great, you get food, a roof over your head, you’ve got a radio and your friends can come and visit any time they like - it suddenly makes it a different picture.” Down on the seafront, Banjo Bai Koroma, the harbourmaster, stares out to sea, watching the Chinese fishing boats with little to do.
  • (14) What she should have said: An assertive interviewee would have fixed Paxman with a cold-eyed stare and said simply and unsmilingly: "No."
  • (15) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (16) No initial staring or postictal confusion was noted.
  • (17) No clear heart rate and respiration patterns were noted during staring.
  • (18) Seizures often occur in clusters, consisting of motion arrest, decreased responsiveness, staring or blank eyes mostly with simple automatisms, and mild convulsive movements associated with focal paroxysmal discharges, most frequently in the temporal area.
  • (19) I have just written one about 50 "great" books, the research for which involved staring at lines of words on pages until first the lines, and subsequently the pages, ran out, and then thinking about them until I knew what I wanted to commit to paper.
  • (20) He's staring into the middle distance, clearly trying to process what's just happened to him.

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