Blaze vs Bronze - What's the difference?
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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.
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(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
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.
To plate with bronze.
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
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
* Sir Walter Scott
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)Etymology 2
From (etyl) blasen, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(blaz)- And far and wide the icy summit blazed .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
bronze
English
(wikipedia bronze)Noun
- Embrown'd with native bronze , lo! Henley stands.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
(terms derived from bronze) * arsenical bronze * bell bronze * Bronze Age * bronze medal * Bronze Star * bronzite * phosphor bronzeVerb
(bronz)- My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
- His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
- the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead