| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a flaring manner.[Websters]
2. In a sparkling or glittering manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a polished manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a fragmented manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a heated manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a horned manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a flaming manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a glowing manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a ridged or crested manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective flaring.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Flaring) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb flare.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flare) | 1. Burn brightly; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity".[Wordnet]. 2. Become flared and widen, usually at one end; "The bellbottom pants flare out".[Wordnet]. 3. Shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment".[Wordnet]. 4. Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Tempers flared at the meeting".[Wordnet]. 5. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.[Websters]. 6. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.[Websters]. 7. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.[Websters]. 8. To be exposed to too much light.[Websters]. 9. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: flaring, flared, flares, flarer, flarers, flaringly and flaredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLARINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flare
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To waver; to flutter; to burn with an unsteady light; as, the candle flares, that is the light wanders from its natural course.. | 2: [Verb] To flutter with splendid show; to be loose and waving as a showy thing. With ribbons pendant flaring 'bout her head.. | 3: [Verb] To glitter with transient luster. But speech alone doth vanish like a flaring thing.. | 4: [Verb] To glitter with painful splendor. When the sun begins to fling his flaring beams.. | 5: [Verb] To be exposed to too much light. I cannot stay flaring in sunshine all the day.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | 1: 1. A bright eruption form the sun's chromosphere. Compare prominence. Flares may appear within minutes and fade within an hour. They cover a wide range of intensity and size, and they tend to occur between sunspots or over their penumbrae. Flares are related to radio fadeouts and terrestrial magnetic disturbances. Flares eject high energy protons which present a serious hazard to men in unshielded spacecraft. 2. Pyrotechnic devices used for signaling or to provide illumination.3. An expansion at the end of a cylindrical body as at the base of a rocket. (references) | 2: A device that produces a bright light. (references) | 3: See solar flare. (references) |
| Business | Ghost images produced by internal reflections in the lens, lens mount and camera body, caused by light from a bright source incident on the external surface of the lens. (references) | ||
| Electrical Engineering | 1: An elementary aerial consisting of a waveguide in which one or more transverse dimensions increase towards the open end; a microwave antenna produced by flaring out the end of a circular or rectangular waveguide into the shape of a horn, for radiating radio waves directly into space. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The pyrotechnic device designed either to give a luminous signal, i. e. very intense light, or to illuminate a large area of ground, i. e. parachute flare. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Environment | A control device that burns hazardous materials to prevent their release into the environment; may operate continuously or intermittently, usually on top of a stack. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | 1: Large bright but unsteady light that dies down after a time, e. g. distress flare. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Upward and outward sweep of ship's bows above waterline from the vertical plane which promotes dryness. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Military | (DOD, NATO) The change in the flight path of an aircraft so as to reduce the rate of descent for touchdown. (references) | ||
| Physics | 1: A sudden eruption of energy in the solar atmosphere lasting minutes to hours, from which radiation and particles are emitted. (references) | 2: An rapid outburst on the Sun, usually in the vicinity of active sunspots. A sudden brightening (usually seen only through special filters) may be followed by the signatures of particle acceleration to high energies: x-rays, radio noise and often, a bit later, the arrival of high-energy ions from the Sun. (references) | 3: Rapid release of energy from a localized region on the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation, energetic particles, and mass motions. (Solar). (references) |
| Space | (Solar flare) a rapid outburst on the Sun, usually in the vicinity of active sunspots. A sudden brightening (only rarely seen without special filters, isolating the red light of hydrogen) may be followed by the signatures of particle acceleration to high energies x-rays, radio noise and often, a bit later, the arrival of high-energy ions from the Sun. Flares appear to be associated with rapid energy releases high above the photosphere, apparently from the magnetic fields of sunspots. Their link to coronal mass ejections, which may also be powered by magnetic energy, is still unclear. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: Final nose-up pitch of landing aircraft in order to reduce the rate of descent to approximately zero at touchdown. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Outward curve of ship's bow. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: The change in the flight path of an aircraft so as to reduce the rate of descent for touchdown. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Weather | An explosion on the sun usually releasing large amounts of energy and particles, and usually occurring within an active region. Flares are more likely at solar maximum. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing. The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down. (references) | 2: [Noun] (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders Jones hits a little flare to left that falls for a single. (references) | 3: [Noun] A brightly burning light used to attract attention in an emergency, or to illuminate an area. The flares steered the traffic away from the accident. (references) | 4: [Noun] A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width, e.g. on the lower legs of trousers and jeans. That's a genuine early '70's flare on those pants. 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, page 270: The flare on the inside of the shoe resists ankle pronation;. (references) | 5: [Verb] (intransitive) To blaze brightly. The blast furnace flared in the night. (references) | 6: [Verb] (intransitive) To burn unsteadily. (references) | 7: [Verb] (intransitive, often with “up” or “out”) To burst out suddenly, as in anger. The insult made him flare up. (references) | 8: [Verb] (transitive) to make flare. (references) |
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Common Expressions: flare
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bastille Day Flare | The Bastille Day Flare or Bastille Day Event was a powerful solar flare on July 14, 2000 occurring near the peak of the solar maximum. Active region 9077 produced an X5-class flare, which caused an S3 radiation storm on Earth fifteen minutes later as energetic protons bombarded the ionosphere. The proton event was four times more intense than any previously recorded. The flare was followed by a full-halo coronal mass ejection. (references) | ||
| Flare (magazine) | Flare is a Canadian fashion magazine. It is owned by Rogers Communications. (references) | ||
| Flare gun | A flare gun is a gun that shoots flares. They are a common item in rescue kits. (references) | ||
| Flare out | Become flared and widen, usually at one end; "The bellbottom pants flare out". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flare pass | A short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flare path | An airstrip outline with lights to guide an airplane pilot in landing. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flare star | A red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flare star | A flare star is a variable star which can undergo unpredictable dramatic increases in brightness for a few minutes or a few hours. The brightness increase is across the spectrum, from X rays to radio waves. (references) | ||
| Flare up | 1: Ignite quickly and suddenly, especially after having died down. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Erupt or intensify suddenly. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Gas flare | A gas flare or flare stack is a tall chimney used by oil wells, refineries and landfills to vent and burn waste natural gas and other flammable gases that are not economical to retain. The flammable gases are burned as they exit the chimney producing a weak to a bright flame depending upon the gas being exhausted. The same flare chimney is a safety device in an emergency, by allowing instant stoppage of the flow of volatile, production, liquids and for them to be vented to the flare-stack instead of damaging the plant by hammer forces. (references) | ||
| Mylene Flare Jenius | Mylene Flare Jenius is a fictional character in the Macross universe. She first appears in Macross 7. She also appears in the movie Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling Me and the OAVs Macross 7 Encore and Macross Dynamite 7. (references) | ||
| Satellite flare | Satellite flare is the phenomenon caused by the reflective surfaces many satellites have today. In their orbits, the antennas or solar panels of satellites directly reflect sunlight. (references) | ||
| Solar flare | A sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Very flare | Very flares (named after E. W. Very, 1847-1907, US inventor) were signal flares, fired from a hand-gun, used during World War I and World War II (and still used today). They were produced in three color variants: green, red, and "white star". The flares come in two sizes, 26.5 mm and 38 mm; both sizes have a "burn time" of ~5 s. (references) | ||
| Xara Flare | Xara Flare Open Vector File Format is a format that was introduced in 1997 by XARA to compete with the Macromedia Flash format. The format was open and developers could export from their products to this format, royalty free and without the need of any permission. The key characteristic and design goal was for a file format that was very compact for fast download over the internet. It supports a rich set of vector graphic primitives including a wide variety of graduated shading and graduated transparency. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flare
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| COMPREHENSIVE FLARE INDEX | Solar | The indicative of solar flare importance given by the sum of the following five components a) Importance of ionizing radiation as indicated by time- associated Short Wave Fade or Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance; (Scale 0-3) b) Importance of H-Alpha flare; (Scale 0-3) c) Magnitude of 10cm flux; (Characteristic of log of flux in units of 10**-22Watt/m**2/Hz) d) Dynamic spectrum; (Type II = 1, Continuum = 2, Type IV with duration > 10 minutes = 3) e) Magnitude of 200MHz flux; (Characteristic of log of flux in units of 10**-22Watt/m**2/Hz) (CFI). (references) | |
| Flare (or "solar flare") | Aerospace | An rapid outburst on the Sun, usually in the vicinity of active sunspots. A sudden brightening (usually seen only through special filters) may be followed by the signatures of particle acceleration to high energies--x-rays, radio noise and often, a bit later, the arrival of high-energy ions from the Sun. (references) | |
| Flare breaker | Occupations | Tends machine that bends flare to conform to shape of arch: Wets flare to make it pliable. Holds lasted insole against hexagon-shaped roller that beats flare against arch contour of last. (references) | |
| Flare chalker | Occupations | Applies liquid coating to shoe parts, or cements cushioning material between parts, to prevent squeaking due to friction or wear. Brushes coating of liquid chalk, paraffin, or wax on parts, such as heel bases, flares, and outsoles. (references) | |
| Flare dud | Military | (DOD) A nuclear weapon that, when launched at a target, detonates with anticipated yield but at an altitude appreciably greater than intended. This is not a dud insofar as yield is concerned, but it is a dud with respect to the effects on the target and the normal operation of the weapon. (references) | |
| Flare echo | Weather | This image will once in awhile appear on the WSR-88D reflectivity product. It shows up as a straight line along the radial pointing away from a very high reflectivity (usually over 60 dBZ) core of a thunderstorm and the radar site itself. This occurs as a result of the radar beam hitting a hail shaft (usually containing hail of greater than 1 inch in diameter). The hail shaft causes the radar beam to be reflected to the ground. When the radar beam hits the wet ground, it is reflected back up into the hail shaft and eventually arrives at the radar site. When it arrives back at the radar site, it assumes that the radar beam went out further than it actually did and it plots it along the radial beyond the high reflectivity core. This image tells that radar operator that the thunderstorm is likely producing hail of greater than 1 inch in diameter. (references) | |
| Flare fitting | Physics | A metal-to-metal compression joint in which a conical spread is made on the end of the tube. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Flare gas | Physics | Unwanted natural gas that is disposed of by burning as it is released from an oil field. (references) | |
| Flare Star | Physics | A member of a class of stars that show occasional, sudden, unpredicted increases in light. The total energy released in a flare on a flare star can be much greater that the energy released in a solar flare. (references) | |
| Hyder flare | Physics | A filament -associated two-ribbon flare, often occurring in spotless regions. The flare is generally slow (30-60 minutes rise time in H alpha and x-ray) and follows the disappearance of a quiescent filament. The flare presumably results from the impact on the chromosphere of infalling filament material. The Hyder flare is named for Dr. C. Hyder, who published studies of such flares in 1967. (references) | |
| HYDER FLARE | Solar | A FILAMENT-associated TWO-RIBBON FLARE, often occurring in spotless regions. The flare presumably results from the impact on the CHROMOSPHERE of infalling FILAMENT material. (references) | |
| LIMB FLARE | Solar | A solar FLARE seen at the edge (LIMB) of the sun. (references) | |
| M Class Flare | Weather | Solar flares which have a particular range of energy output of X-ray radiation. An M class flare will usually produce a shortwave fadeout in the daylight hemisphere of the earth. M class flares are less intense than X class flares but more intense than C class flares. (references) | |
| Proton flare | Physics | Any flare producing significant counts of protons with energies exceeding 10 MeV in the vicinity of the Earth. (references) | |
| Proton flare | Weather | A flare that liberates significant amounts of high energy protons. If this stream intercepts the earth. the protons cause a polar cap absorption (PCA). (references) | |
| Solar flare | Aerospace | 1: See flare. (references) | |
| 2: An enormous explosion of gas in the solar atmosphere resulting in a sudden burst of particle acceleration, the heating of plasma and the eruption of large amounts of solar mass. (references) | |||
| 3: See "flare" (references) | |||
| 4: See flare, solar. (references) | |||
| 5: A storm or eruption of hot gases on the Sun. (references) | |||
| 6: A temporary outburst of solar gases from a small area of the Sun's surface. (references) | |||
| 7: A very rapid release of energy from the Sun's surface. This energy is in the form of light waves of various wavelengths, shock waves, and hot and fast charged particles. This can happen anywhere from a few minutes to about a day. The effects of flares are often measured by spacecraft and seen at Earth. (references) | |||
| Solar flare | Geography | Bright eruption from the Sun's chromosphere. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Solar Flare | Physics | A rapid brightening in localized regions on the Sun's photosphere that is usually observed in the ultraviolet and X-ray ranges of the spectrum, and is often accompanied by gamma ray and radio bursts. Solar flares can form in a few minutes and last from tens of minutes to several hours in long-duration events. Flares also produce fast particles in the solar wind, which arrive at Earth over the days following the flare. The energy dumped into the earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere from flares is a major cause of space weather. (references) | |
| Solar flare | Science | Brilliant flashes of light that develop suddenly in the Sun's atmosphere. Flares are usually associated with sunspots and are caused by the release of large amounts of magnetic energy. (references) | |
| Solar flare | Space | A rapid outburst on the Sun, usually in the vicinity of active sunspots. A sudden brightening (only rarely seen without special filters) may be followed by the signatures of particle acceleration to high energies--x-rays, radio noise and often, a bit later, the arrival of high-energy ions from the Sun. (references) | |
| To FLARE | Slang in 1811 | To FLARE. To blaze, shine or glare. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| TWO-RIBBON FLARE | Solar | A FLARE that has developed as a pair of bright strands (ribbons) on both sides of the main inversion ("neutral") line of the magnetic field of the ACTIVE REGION. (references) | |
| White light flare | Solar | A major FLARE in which small parts become visible in white light. Such flares are usually strong X-ray, radio, and particle emitters. (references) | |
| X Class Flare | Weather | Flares which have a particular range of energy output of X-ray radiation. X class flares are very energetic events which will definitely produce a shortwave fadeout in the daylight hemisphere of the earth. (references) | |
| X-RAY FLARE CLASS | Solar | Rank of a FLARE based on its X-ray energy output. Flares are classified by the order of magnitude of the peak burst inten- sity (I) measured at the earth in the 1 to 8 angstrom band as follows: Class (in Watt/sq. Meter) B I less than (l.t.) 10.0E-06 C 10.0E-06 l.e.= I l.t.= 10.0E-05 M 10.0E-05 l.e.= I l.t.= 10.0E-04 X I g.e.= 10.0E-04. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: flare
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FLARE | English | Florida Aquanaut Research Expedition | Geography | |
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