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Blaze vs Bronze - What's the difference?

blaze | bronze |

As nouns the difference between blaze and bronze

is that blaze is a fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light while bronze is bronze.

As a verb blaze

is to be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.

blaze

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) blase, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
  • The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
  • :
  • 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.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) blasen, from (etyl) . See above.

    Verb

    (blaz)
  • To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.
  • To shine like a flame.
  • * (William Wordsworth)
  • And far and wide the icy summit blazed .
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • 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:
  • ::
  • * Or less commonly, in the present progressive:
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  • bronze

    English

    (wikipedia bronze)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
  • (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
  • A bronze medal.
  • Boldness; impudence; brass.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Embrown'd with native bronze , lo! Henley stands.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of bronze metal.
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  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  • Having a reddish-brown colour.
  • (lb) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
  • Derived terms

    (terms derived from bronze) * arsenical bronze * bell bronze * Bronze Age * bronze medal * Bronze Star * bronzite * phosphor bronze

    Verb

    (bronz)
  • To plate with bronze.
  • My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
  • To color bronze.
  • (of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  • * 2006 , Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
  • His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
  • To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

    See also

    * Brindisi * Cycladic * Hallstatt * Helladic * Minoan * penny *

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