Word Finder - flares

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A sudden bright light.

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A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.

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solar flare

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A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.

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

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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.

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(in plural) Bell-bottom trousers.

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The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.

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

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

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Jones hits a little flare to left that falls for a single.

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• Texas leaguer
• blooper

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A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.

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Short for lens flare.

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To cause to burn.

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To cause inflammation; to inflame.

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To open outward in shape.

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The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza. (intransitive)

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

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To blaze brightly.

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The blast furnace flared in the night.

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

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The candle flared in a sudden draught.

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

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To suddenly happen or intensify.

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• flare up

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To suddenly erupt in anger.

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• flare up

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To be exposed to too much light.

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Bell-bottoms, pants with flared legs.

His team continued to clear the building and toss flares into corners as they sought out any living insurgents or incendiary devices.

Dan rallied his team and broke towards the east, where the first flares had appeared.

He always flares up!

Flares went up to the east and south.

The wider flares, closer to a bell-bottom, are back in.

The most popular theories revolve around a celestial alignment, mega solar flares or a magnetic pole shift that will cause cataclysmic events that ravage the earth.

She watched the flares of color against the night sky with tired fascination.

His eyes took in their surroundings as more flares went up, this time only a street away in each direction.

If the flares going up short distance away were any sign, the five men were part of a larger force between them and their destination.

The nasal cavity communicates with the mouth by the choanae or posterior flares, situated between the palatine process of the maxillary, the palatine and the vomer.

Friday night is 70s and 80s night, and Cambridge people need as little excuse as anyone to don a kinky Afro and flares.

Glam wigs, flares, leopard skins, feather bowers and hot pants fill the stage as the glitz production unfolds.

It's the 1970s - Twiglets, flares and shag pile carpet.

The countermeasures division comprises Chemring countermeasures division comprises Chemring Countermeasures in the UK, and Alloy Surfaces Company, Inc. and Kilgore Flares Company LLC in the US.

Some kayakers do carry their flares on the deck of their kayak, typically under the deck elastics just in front of the cockpit.

Pure, shining moments strung like tiny seed pearls between big red flares of defeat.

The parachute flares are fired into the air to produce a very bright light which slowly descends on a parachute illuminating a large area.

A study in the last few months suggests that HRT may increase the risk of mild to moderate lupus flares.

If systemic therapy is needed, intra-muscular corticosteroids can be used; these avoid the rebound flares that occur when oral steroids are withdrawn.

In the past distress flares, which can be lethal in the wrong hands, have been taken.

There are protests and tempers flares into a startling climax with Whitaker shooting the prisoner.

Since then I have had flares which CNS symptoms including myelitis, extreme weakness and paresthesias in my legs.

The parachute flares are fired into the air to produce a very bright light which slowly descends on a parachute flares are fired into the air to produce a very bright light which slowly descends on a parachute illuminating a large area.

The end of the particle attached to the F pilus flares open, exposing the phage DNA.

Topics include recent solar flares, aurora, coronal mass ejection.

One of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded erupted this morning near giant sunspot 486.

The flares then require topical steroid to bring them back under control.

You should be able to see sunspots on the disk and, if you are lucky, flares around the edge.

But the Sun is still having bigger sunspots, flares and storms than during the year 2000.

An F-14 tomcat, looks like it's making an evasive, punching burner and dropping flares.

However, loops visible for shorter periods are associated with solar flares.

But the Sun is still having bigger Sunspots, flares and storms than during the year 2000.

An F-14 Tomcat, looks like it 's making an evasive, punching burner and dropping flares.

Blurriness, color casts, faded hues, botched exposures and light flares are all imperfect aspects of images captured by instant film cameras.

A richly pleated skirt flares out from an empire waist in this goddess-like gown.

Choose an A-line dress that skims your figure on the top and flares softly below the waist.

Typically, the silhouette of an exercise Capri runs closely along the lines of the body; however, you can also find one that is more like a traditional short or Capri - a slightly baggier fit that flares at the calf.

Choose a tube top with slight ruching in the empire waist which then flares out in a flattering way (great for women who don't want tight fitting tops that cling to their bellies).

For example, an empire dress fitted in the chest that flares at the waste can make your mid-section and hips look smaller.

A variation of the fit-and-flare skirt is fitted from the waist through the thighs and then flares out from just above the knee.

If you are unable to free your vehicle, put out emergency flares or reflective triangles to alert other drivers that you are stuck.

Every boat should be equipped with a fire extinguisher and distress flares.

An antibiotic (usually trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) is sometimes given to children with Wegener's granulomatosis to control flares, or recurrences of the disease.

While many children have cycles of flares and remissions, in some children the disease completely and permanently resolves within a few years of diagnosis.

Many of these children continue to have periodic flares of fever and systemic symptoms throughout childhood.

Flares, bootcut, and wide leg styles can be purchased in different color washes.

Sciatic nerve pain, also known as sciatica, occurs when the sciatic nerve that extends from the lower back through the gluteus and down the leg flares up.

The black swim skirt flares ever so slightly with a matching floral belt.

It's extremely low-cut and flares back out from the central point on the abdomen, creating the crisscross.

Try an empire waist top that flares out from under the bust, or a top that drawstrings tight at the mid-hip area.