English Dictionary

flare

/flɛə̯/

verb

(transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas). / (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame. / (transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.

He used a match to flare the bonfire.

意味（1）

(transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).

Qatar joined the World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction programme in early 2008, indicating its commitment to reducing the process of flaring the gas found with oil deposits.

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.

Trying to draw a breath flared the pressure on his chest into searing agony.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.

The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air. (transitive)

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.

After a brief refueling stop in Fairbanks, Billy continued on to the cabin. As he flared the Huey [a helicopter] to land, he could see Moses running out of the cabin to greet him

意味（5）

(intransitive) To blaze brightly.

The blast furnace flared in the night.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

The candle flared in a sudden draught.

意味（7）

(intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.

[B]y a robe of white, the which ſhe weares, / With ribones pendant flaring bout her head, / I ſhalbe ſure to know her, […]

意味（8）

(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.

The genius of the poet [John Keats] flares up, dies out, and flares again, as if there were a dearth of fuel to feed it; and by this fault, more than any other, he is removed out of the class of great poets, and occupies but the second rank.

意味（9）

(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.

[H]e flared up very much when I told him I could not give him the schedule.

意味（10）

(intransitive, obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.

[…] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; […]