GLAREとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 glaren, from 古期英語 *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɡlɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡlɛə/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɡleː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ɡleə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ɡliə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ɡleɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ɡlɜː(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)

名詞

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.

   a glare of ice

6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

派生語

動詞

glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.

   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXIX:

     eye that scorcheth all it glares upon

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:

     Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]

2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount

     She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

等位語

• scowl

派生語

形容詞

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

   skating on glare ice

アナグラム

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, lager, large, regal