Flare vs. Fusee

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

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.

Fuseenoun

A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.

Fuseenoun

A large friction match.

Fuseenoun

A fuse for an explosive.

Fuseenoun

(US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.

Fuseenoun

A fusil, or flintlock musket.

Fuseenoun

The track of a buck.

Fuseenoun

One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.

Fuseenoun

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

Fuseenoun

A fuse. See Fuse, n.

Fuseenoun

A friction match for smokers' use having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.

Fuseenoun

A signal device, usually cylindrical, consisting of a tube filled with a composition which burns with a bright colored light for a definite time. It is used principally for the protection of trains or road vehicles, indicating an obstruction or accident ahead. Also called a flare or railroad flare.

Fuseenoun

The track of a buck.

Fuseenoun

The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.

Fuseenoun

a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring

Fuseenoun

a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains

Fuseenoun

a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind

Fuseenoun

any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant

Fuseenoun

a conical pulley or wheel, especially in a watch or clock.

Fuseenoun

a large-headed match capable of staying alight in strong wind.

Fuseenoun

a railway signal flare.