Definition of Flares

1. Noun. (plural of flare) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of flare) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flares

1. flare [v] - See also: flare

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flares

flare-ups
flare angel
flare gun
flare out
flare path
flare star
flare streaming
flare up
flare up at
flareback
flarebacks
flared
flared teeth
flarepath
flares (current term)
flareup
flareups
flarier
flariest
flarimeter
flaring
flaringly
flary
flaser
flasers
flash-ball
flash-forward
flash-freeze

Literary usage of Flares

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration: Report of a by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"flares and Active Regions flares occur during the rapid conversion of energy from the ... flares have traditionally been associated with sources of SEPs, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Henley Eden Henley (1819)
"The original bill had been tiled in the year 1734, by De Pinna and his wife, against flares and others, claiming in the right of the wife the payment of ..."

3. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"4• Tares. flares of Similes choak the roots, Ode 11. Tarnished. In peaked hoods and mantles tarnish'd, LS 105. Tarts. Better to bottom tarts Shak. 17. Task. ..."

4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... the electric spark is communicated and the fire of inspiration flares up ; but even then she desires no more than to suffer or die for what she loves. ..."

5. When we were boys: A Novel by William O'Brien (1890)
"CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SIXTH FATHER PHIL flares UP JACK HAROLD knew so little of Dublin that he took it to be a place like Paris, where a human unit added to ..."

6. Asser's Life of King Alfred: Together with the Annals of Saint Neots by John Asser, William Henry Stevenson (1904)
"Paris flares 13 arma- torum militum Paris flares millibus Ar qui] quae omnes J'aris flares 16 vero] ..."

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