flare

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sudden bright light.
2. isim A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.

   “solar flare”

3. isim A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.

   “Flares were used to steer the traffic away from the accident.”

4. isim A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
5. isim A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.

   “"A strange flare of maternal pride," he remarked in his usual detached fashion as he rejoined Parkinson.”

6. isim A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.

   “During assembly of a flare tube fitting, a flare nut is used to secure the flared tubing’s tapered end to the also tapered fitting, producing a pressure-resistant, leak-tight seal.”

7. isim The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
8. isim Bell-bottom trousers.
9. isim The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.

   “The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down.”

10. isim 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.”

11. isim A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
12. isim Ellipsis of lens flare.
13. isim An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
14. isim A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
15. fiil To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess 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.”

16. fiil To cause inflammation; to inflame.

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

17. fiil To open outward in shape.

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

18. fiil 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”

19. fiil To blaze brightly.

    “The blast furnace flared in the night.”

20. fiil To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

    “The candle flared in a sudden draught.”

21. fiil 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, […]”

22. fiil 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.”

23. fiil To suddenly erupt in anger.

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

24. fiil 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; […]”