Flare vs Ablaze - What's the difference?
flare | ablaze |
A source of brightly burning light or intense heat used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
* 2010 , James Fleming, Cold Blood
*:...when the soldiers openly laughed at him, I knew he was in the bag. While he was putting on the snowplough, the Whites shot up a flare to see what was happening.
*, chapter=7
, title= A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
* 2003 , Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running , page 270:
(aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders
A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad, a fusee.
To blaze brightly.
To burn unsteadily.
(intransitive) To open outward in shape.
To cause to burn.
To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
* Prior
Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
, url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15325536.stm
, page=
, passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}
Radiant with bright light and color.
* All ablaze with crimson and gold. -
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
* The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. -
On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
Lit up brightly and with color.
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
As a noun flare
is a source of brightly burning light or intense heat used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.As a verb flare
is to blaze brightly.As an adjective ablaze is
burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.As an adverb ablaze is
on fire; in a blaze, gleaming.flare
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
- The flare on the inside of the shoe resists ankle pronation;
Derived terms
* lens flare * nonflared * parachute flare * unflaredVerb
- The blast furnace flared in the night.
- The candle flared in a sudden draught.
- The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air.
- The cat's nostrils flared when it sniffed at the air.
- The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza.
- The sides of a bowl flare .
- With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.
- flaring in sunshine all the day