FLARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flaring mean? 

• FLARING (adjective)
  The adjective FLARING has 1 sense:

1. streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air

  Familiarity information: FLARING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air

Synonyms:

aflare; flaring

Context example:

flags aflare in the breeze

Similar:

moving (in motion)

 Context examples 

The flaring lamps of a carriage were immediately in view.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This might partly be due to the fact that a lamp stood flaring and smoking on the centre table.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Striding through the scattered knots of people who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the little man and touched him upon the shoulder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Signs and symptoms include a characteristic facial appearance (protuberant and low-set ears, thick lips, and flaring nostrils), intrauterine growth retardation, insulin resistance, and enlarged genitalia.

(Donohue Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Fortunately, low-mass stars like TRAPPIST-1 have temperatures and brightnesses that remain relatively constant over trillions of years, punctuated by occasional magnetic flaring events.

(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)

Magnetic activity, flaring, and X-ray emission are linked to the star’s rotation, which generally declines with age.

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

They were stars, I knew, and flaring comets, that peopled my flight among the suns.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He told us of the globe, a huge mass of flaming gas, flaring through the heavens.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had seen his flaring yellow barouche flying through Friar’s Oak many a time, and had halloaed and waved my hat with the others as it passed, but never in my wildest dreams had it entered my head that I should ever be called upon to look him in the face and answer his questions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)