Flak vs Blame - What's the difference?
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Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
* 1964 , David John Cawdell Irving, The Destruction of Dresden ,
* 2007 , Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944 , footnote,
Anti-aircraft shell fire.
* 1943 November 29, Target: Germany'', in '' ,
* 1999 , Brian O'Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer ,
(figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
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* 1990 , Joel H. Spring, The American School, 1642-1990 ,
(informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
* 2006 , , A Propaganda Model'', in 2006 [2001], Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner (editors), ''Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks , revised edition,
Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
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* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace :
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 106:
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
As a noun flak
is ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.As a verb blame is
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(wikipedia flak)Alternative forms
* flack (adverse criticism and spokesperson senses)Noun
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- to consider whether the city was in February 1945 an undefended city within the meaning of the 1907 Hague Convention, it will be necessary to examine the establishment and subsequent total dispersal of the city's flak batteries, before the date of the triple blow.
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- He was promoted to general of flak' artillery on March 1, 1945, and ended the war as the general of the ' flak arm at OKL, the High Command of the Luftwaffe.
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- ''At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o'clock, below.
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- I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it.
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- This filter Herman and Chomsky call “flak',” which refers to letters, speeches, phone calls, and other forms of group and individual complaints. Advertisers and broadcasters avoid programming content that might cause large volumes of ' flak .
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- AIM head, Reed Irvine's diatribes are frequently published, and right-wing network flaks who regularly assail the “liberal media,” such as Michael Ledeen, are given Op-ed column space, sympathetic reviews, and a regular place on talk shows as experts.
Synonyms
* AAA, triple-A * ack-ackSee also
* flak jacket ----blame
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(-)- Blame came from all directions.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
- They accepted the blame , but it was an accident.
Derived terms
* put the blame onSee also
* faultEtymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) blasmer, from . Compare (blaspheme)Verb
(blam)- though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame , yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
- These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
- That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary . The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
- I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming .
- For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
- The arsonist was blamed for the fire.