glare vs shimmer

glare

verb
  • To shine brightly. 

  • To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. 

  • To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. 

  • To stare angrily. 

adj
  • smooth and bright or translucent; glary 

noun
  • An angry or fierce stare. 

  • A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call. 

  • A viscous, transparent substance; glair. 

  • An intense, blinding light. 

  • Showy brilliance; gaudiness. 

  • A smooth, bright, glassy surface. 

shimmer

verb
  • To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly. 

noun
  • A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time. 

  • A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining. 

  • A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip. 

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