What is the difference between blaze and ablaze?
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A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze . When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
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A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:his blaze of wrath
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
*Robert Carlton (B. R. Hall, 1798-1863)
*:Three blazes' in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single ' blaze a settlement or neighbourhood road.
To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.
To shine like a flame.
* (William Wordsworth)
* , chapter=1
, title= To make a thing shine like a flame.
To mark or cut (a route, especially through vegetation), or figuratively, to set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge.
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
* Most commonly used in the infinitive, simple present, or simple past:
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Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
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, date=October 23
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
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, passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}
Radiant with bright light and color.
* All ablaze with crimson and gold. -
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
* The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. -
On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
Lit up brightly and with color.
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
Ablaze is a related term of blaze.
As a noun blaze
is a fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.As a verb blaze
is to be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.As an adjective ablaze is
burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.As an adverb ablaze is
on fire; in a blaze, gleaming.blaze
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blase, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) blasen, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(blaz)- And far and wide the icy summit blazed .
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