different between blaze vs bonfire

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Etymology 1

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-Germanic *blas? (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”). Compare Dutch bles (“blaze”), German Blesse (“blaze, mark on an animal's forehead”), Swedish bläs (“blaze”).

Noun

blaze (plural blazes)

1. 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, […].

2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
3. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.

4. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
5. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst.
6. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
7. (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.

Derived terms

• ablaze
• blazen

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.

Verb

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)

1. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.

2. (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
   • 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches

     And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
3. (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
4. (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
5. (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
6. (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
7. (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
8. (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.

9. (transitive, figuratively) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.

10. (figuratively) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
    • 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand (page 160)

      "I'll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!" blazed the girl.

11. (slang) To smoke marijuana.

Related terms

• ablaze
• blaze a trail

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *bl?san, from Proto-Germanic *bl?san? (“to blow”). Related to English blast.

Verb

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)

1. (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet
2. (transitive) To publish; announce publicly
3. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame
4. (transitive, heraldry) To blazon

Noun

blaze (plural blazes)

1. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report

References

• blaze at OneLook Dictionary Search
• blaze in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Elbaz

Czech

Etymology

From blahý +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?blaz?]
• Rhymes: -az?
• Hyphenation: bla?ze

Adverb

blaze (comparative blažeji, superlative nejblažeji)

1. blissfully, happily

Related terms

• blažen?
• š?astn?
• mile

Related terms

Further reading

• blaze in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• blaze in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bla?z?]

Verb

blaze

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blazen

Anagrams

• bazel

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *bl?sa, from Proto-West Germanic *bl?san, from Proto-Germanic *bl?san?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blaz?/

Verb

blaze

1. to blow

Inflection

Further reading

• “blaze (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Alternative forms

• bleaze

Etymology

From Middle English blase, from Old English blase.

Noun

blaze

1. faggot

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• burnfire
• bone-fire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bonefire, bonefyre, banefyre (“a fire in which bones are burnt”); equivalent to bone +? fire, with the first element perhaps later assimilating to French bon. Cognate with Scots banefire (“bonfire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?n.?fa?.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?n.?fa?.?/, /?b?n.?fa?.?/

Noun

bonfire (plural bonfires)

1. (obsolete) A fire in which bones are burned.
2. A fire to burn unwanted or disreputable items or people: proscribed books, heretics etc.
3. A large, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something.

Derived terms

• Bonfire Night

Translations

References

See also

• balefire
• bale

Verb

bonfire (third-person singular simple present bonfires, present participle bonfiring, simple past and past participle bonfired)

1. To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
   • 2000, Moira Vincentelli, Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester University Press (?ISBN), page 42:

     Most women's traditions involve open firing such as bonfiring, pitfiring, or a fire surrounded by a low wall. More unusually, in Cyprus, Colombia and the Canaries individual potters have their own kilns.

   • 2004, Moira Vincentelli, Women Potters: Transforming Traditions, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN), page 212:

     Bonfiring has a very direct contact between the pottery and the flame. Firing time is usually quite short and the pots are carefully supervised through the process. Bonfiring, in general, does not create the same amount of wasters as kiln firing ...

   • 2018, Kerstin Pinther, Alexandra Weigand, Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow: Design Histories between Africa and Europe, transcript Verlag (?ISBN), page 102:

     […] while open bonfiring was practiced mainly by women and universally used in African traditions where it has a very low failure rate. It has been characterized as technically simple though in fact it requires a hyper refined combination of specific clay body, fuel, firing technique and atmospheric conditions - formulas derived from local experimentation mainly by generations of women.

2. To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
   • 2014, Joan Rust, Anniecat Chronicles, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 131:

     […] are all bar-b-quing, swimming, jetskiing, bonfiring, and the next thing you know everyone is gone, leaving the house empty […]

   • 2016, Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling (?ISBN), cover summary:

     She could only dream about bonfiring with the populars.

Anagrams

• be in for