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Flame is a related term of holocaust.


As a verb flame

is .

As a proper noun holocaust is

(historical|narrowly) the systematic mass murder (genocide) of 6 million jews perpetrated by nazi germany shortly before and during world war ii.

flame

English

(wikipedia flame)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
  • *
  • *: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= 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 .}}
  • 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.
  • :
  • 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)

    • 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 flamecrest

    Related terms

    * flamboyant * flamingo * flammable * oriflamme * phlegm * phlogiston * phlogopite * phlox

    Verb

    (flam)
  • To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again.
  • To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
  • * Macaulay
    • He flamed with indignation.
  • (Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
    • I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

    Derived terms

    * flamer * flaming

    Related terms

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.

    • See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    holocaust

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark XII:
    • And to love a mans nehbour as hymsilfe, ys a greater thynge then all holocaustes and sacrifises.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
    • in the holocaust or burnt-offering of Moses, the gall was cast away: for, as Ben Maimon instructeth, the inwards, whereto the gall adhereth, were taken out with the crop (according unto the law,) which the priest did not burn, but cast unto the east [...].
  • The annihilation or near-annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by natural or deliberate agency.
    • nuclear holocaust
  • The state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group. In particular, the Holocaust (which see ).
  • An inferno or fire disaster.
    • a nuclear holocaust

    Usage notes

    * Use of the word holocaust to depict Jewish suffering under the Nazis dates back to 1942, according to the OED. By the 1970s, The Holocaust'' was often synonymous with the Jewish exterminations. This use of the term as a synonym for the Jewish exterminations has been criticised because it appears to imply that there was a voluntary religious purpose behind the Nazi actions, which was not the case from either the Nazis' perspective or the victims'. Hence, some people prefer the term ''Shoah'', which means ''destruction . * The word continues to be used in its other senses. For example, part of the action of a BBC radio drama by James Follett in 1981 takes place in “Holocaust City”, which by inference was named because the inhabitants were the only survivors of a global nuclear war. * For more information on the use of the term Holocaust'', see the entry ''Holocaust .

    Related terms

    * caustic * holo- * nuclear holocaust

    See also

    * burnt offering * ethnic cleansing * pogrom

    References

    * Lewis M. Paternoster and Ruth Frager-Stone, Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth, second edition (Amsco School Publications, 1998) * Oxford Dictionary: holocaust * * ----