Blazing vs Flame - What's the difference?
blazing | flame |
Very fast.
(sarcastically) Very slow.
(slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
Of tremendous intensity or fervor; white-hot.
(colloquial) Exceedingly angry.
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
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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.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
*(Thackeray)
(lb) Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.
A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
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Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:in a flame of zeal severe
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow
*(Coleridge)
To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
* Shakespeare
To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
* Macaulay
(Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
As verbs the difference between blazing and flame
is that blazing is while flame is .As an adjective blazing
is very fast.As a noun blazing
is the act of something that blazes or burns.blazing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Garden snails move at a blazing speed of about .03 miles per hour.
- The actress, with her perfectly-curved body, was simply blazing in her new movie!
- It was a performance of blazing ferocity.
- I've became so blazing that I can't control myself properly
flame
English
(wikipedia flame)Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame .}}
Derived terms
* aflame * flame-arc lamp * flame bait * flame carbon * flame cell * flame gun * flame nettle * flame of the forest * flame-out, flameout * flameproof * flame-retardant * flame spread * flame test * flame-thrower * flame tree * flame war * go up in flames * inflame * old flame * Taiwan flamecrestVerb
(flam)- The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again.
- He flamed with indignation.
- I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.