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blaze
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)
- 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, […].
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (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.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- (transitive, figuratively) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (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.
- 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand (page 160)
- (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)
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon
Noun
blaze (plural blazes)
- 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)
- 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
- (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
- to blow
Inflection
Further reading
- “blaze (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Alternative forms
- bleaze
Etymology
From Middle English blase, from Old English blase.
Noun
blaze
- 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
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sunbeam
English
Etymology
From Middle English *sonne-beme (attested only as Middle English sonnes bem, sonnes beme and also as beem of the sonne), from Old English sunnb?am, sunneb?am (“sunbeam”), equivalent to sun +? beam.
Noun
sunbeam (plural sunbeams)
- A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
- 1957, Rudolf Arnheim, Film as Art, page 90,
- I cut-in various other material to this; for instance, a shot of a rushing brook in springtime, with dancing sunbeams reflected in the water; of birds splashing in the village pond; and, finally, of a laughing child.
- 2001, Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, page 116,
- Similarly, the rays diverging from the sun will pass by you and converge on the point directly opposite the sun, the shadow of your head. All sunbeams, and thus all shadows, appear to converge there. […] Only perspective makes all shadows appear to converge on the antisolar point. But this point is also the center of the rainbow, so as you look at the rainbow, all sunbeams and shadows will lie along radii of the bow as they flow straight to its center.
- 2008 (1952), Lotte H. Eisner, Roger Greaves (translator), The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, ?ISBN, page 68,
- I had frequently had to explain to cameramen that only in the early morning or late in the evening did sunbeams fall from the window as flat as they were usually found in films. The sun being higher during the hours of work, another way of showing sunbeams had to be found.
- 1957, Rudolf Arnheim, Film as Art, page 90,
- (Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Curetis.
- Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
- (Britain) Synonym of sunshine (“ironic form of address to an inferior or troublemaker”)
- 1987, Doctor Who (TV series), Paradise Towers (aired 5 October)
- DOCTOR: You seem to be our best bet so far, don't you think so, Mel? Mel? Where's Mel?
DEPUTY: No, no, no, sunbeam. You're coming with us.
Related terms
- sunbeamed
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