Flair vs. Flare

Flairnoun

A natural or innate talent or aptitude; a knack.

Flairnoun

Distinctive style or elegance; panache or elan.

Flairnoun

(obsolete) Smell; odor.

Flairnoun

(obsolete) The sense of smell.

Flairverb

(transitive) To add flair.

Flairnoun

Smell; odor.

Flairnoun

Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.

Flairnoun

A talent or ability, expecially an intuitive one that makes performance of a task appear easy; an intuitive appreciation; a knack; as, she has a flair for acting.

Flairnoun

An attractive way of performing a task; style.

Flairnoun

a natural talent;

Flairnoun

distinctive and stylish elegance;

Flairnoun

a shape that spreads outward;

Flarenoun

A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.

Flarenoun

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.

Flarenoun

(oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.

Flarenoun

(figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.

Flarenoun

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

Flarenoun

(in plural) Bell-bottom trousers.

Flarenoun

(aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.

Flarenoun

(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.

Flarenoun

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Flareverb

(transitive) To cause to burn.

Flareverb

(transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.

Flareverb

(ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.

Flareverb

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

Flareverb

(intransitive) To blaze brightly.

Flareverb

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

Flareverb

To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.

Flareverb

To suddenly happen or intensify.

Flareverb

To suddenly erupt in anger.

Flareverb

To be exposed to too much light.

Flareverb

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

Flareverb

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

Flareverb

To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.

Flareverb

To be exposed to too much light.

Flareverb

To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

Flarenoun

An unsteady, broad, offensive light.

Flarenoun

A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.

Flarenoun

A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative.

Flarenoun

Leaf of lard.

Flarenoun

a shape that spreads outward;

Flarenoun

a sudden burst of flame

Flarenoun

a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

Flarenoun

reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation

Flarenoun

a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms;

Flarenoun

a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference

Flarenoun

am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)

Flarenoun

a sudden outburst of emotion;

Flarenoun

a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification

Flarenoun

a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines;

Flarenoun

(baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield

Flareverb

burn brightly;

Flareverb

become flared and widen, usually at one end;

Flareverb

shine with a sudden light;

Flareverb

erupt or intensify suddenly;

Flare

A flare, also sometimes called a fusée, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a bright light or intense heat without an explosion. Flares are used for distress signaling, illumination, or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications.