Flares can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
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| flare - shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment" | ||
| flare - burn brightly; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity" | ||
| flare - erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" | ||
| flare - become flared and widen, usually at one end; "The bellbottom pants flare out" | ||
Noun |
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| flare - a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate | ||
| flare - a sudden burst of flame | ||
| flare - (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield | ||
| flare - a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification | ||
| flare - a shape that spreads outward; "the skirt had a wide flare" | ||
| flare - a sudden outburst of emotion; "she felt a flare of delight"; "she could not control her flare of rage" | ||
| flare - am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection) | ||
| flare - a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms; "a colitis flare"; "infection can cause a lupus flare" | ||
| flare - reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation | ||
| flare - a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines; "he threw a flare to the fullback who was tackled for a loss" | ||
| flare - a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference |
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| 1. | noun | Flares are used to avoid heat-seeking missiles. | |
| 2. | noun | The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur. | |
| 3. | noun | No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles. | |
| 4. | noun | The skirt had a wide flare. | |
| 5. | noun | She felt a flare of delight. | |
| 6. | noun | She could not control her flare of rage. | |
| 7. | noun | A colitis flare. | |
| 8. | noun | Infection can cause a lupus flare. | |
| 9. | noun | He threw a flare to the fullback who was tackled for a loss. | |
| 10. | noun | We thought Mary and Tom were lost at sea but then we saw the distress flare. | |
| 11. | noun | We thought Mary and Tom were lost at sea but then we saw the distress flare. | |
| 12. | verb | Every star seemed to flare with new intensity. | |
| 13. | verb | The bellbottom pants flare out. |
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| Flares are used to avoid heat-seeking missiles. | |
| The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur. | |
| No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles. | |
| The skirt had a wide flare. |
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| She felt a flare of delight. |
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| She could not control her flare of rage. |
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| A colitis flare. |
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| Infection can cause a lupus flare. |
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| He threw a flare to the fullback who was tackled for a loss. |
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| We thought Mary and Tom were lost at sea but then we saw the distress flare. | |
| We thought Mary and Tom were lost at sea but then we saw the distress flare. | |
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| Every star seemed to flare with new intensity. |
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| The bellbottom pants flare out. |
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