Wildfire vs Blaze - What's the difference?
wildfire | blaze |
A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
(historical) Greek fire, Byzantine fire.
A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.
(figuratively) Something that acts quickly and uncontrollably.
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A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
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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 and heaping kindling on the coals,.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
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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.
To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.
To shine like a flame.
* (William Wordsworth)
* , chapter=1
, title= 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:
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As nouns the difference between wildfire and blaze
is that wildfire is a rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area 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.wildfire
English
(wikipedia wildfire)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1622 , Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, The Virgin Martyr *: The. Do not blow, *: The Furnace of a wrath thrice hot already; *: Ætna is in my brest, wildfire burns here, *: Which onely bloud must quench ... * 1715 , Floyer, Edward Baynard, Psychrolousia. Or, the History of Cold Bathing: Both Ancient and Modern *: Where are ''[...]'' the ''Aunts'' that do as much for their ''Nieces'', and make them caper and sparkle like Wildfire ? * 1715 , Francisco de Quevedo, The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo *: I slept very disturbedly, and had a quick high towring ''Pulse''; had strange ''Flashes'' in my ''Blood'', like Wild-fire , which I could perceive in my Face, Neck, Breast, and extream Parts .Synonyms
* forest fireDerived terms
* spread like wildfireSee also
* brushfire * bushfire * conflagrationReferences
* 1862 , Martim de Albuquerque, Notes and Queries . * {{cite web , url = http://1911encyclopedia.org/Greek_Fire , title = Greek Fire , publisher = Classic Encyclopedia , date = 30 October 2006 , accessdate = 2008-12-23 }}blaze
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) blase, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) blasen, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(blaz)- And far and wide the icy summit blazed .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
