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Bushfire vs Blaze - What's the difference?

bushfire | blaze |

As nouns the difference between bushfire and blaze

is that bushfire is (australia) an uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire while 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.

bushfire

English

(wikipedia bushfire)

Alternative forms

* bush fire

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia) An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
  • * 1985 , , Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, Weekly Hansard , Issues 4-6, page 1322,
    • Many homes, a great deal of property and a number of lives were lost as a result of the bushfires in this country.
  • * 2011 , Tracey Dickson, Tonia Gray, Risk Management in the Outdoors: A Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation , page 199,
    • It should also be kept in mind that often bushfires start and move quickly and the information relating to their location and activity may take some time to assemble and make available.
  • * 2011 , Larry Writer, The Australian Book of Disasters , unnumbered page,
    • The Black Saturday bushfires' were a series of apocalyptic blazes that burned on – and for some weeks after – Saturday, 7 February 2009. As a result of the '''bushfires''', 173 people died. It was the nation?s largest loss of life from a ' bushfire event, and 414 people were injured.

    Synonyms

    * (uncontrolled fire in a wooded area) forest fire, wildfire (US)

    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:
  • ::
    • Related terms
    * ablaze ----