different between combustion vs blaze

combustion

English

Etymology

From Old French combustion, from Latin combustio, from comburere (to burn), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe"); equivalent to combust +? -ion.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?m?b?s.t??n/

Noun

combustion (countable and uncountable, plural combustions)

  1. (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
  2. A process where two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
  3. A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
  4. (figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
    • c. 1665, John Worthington, "The Author's Life", in The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede
      There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.

Synonyms

  • (act or process of burning): incineration, cremation

Hyponyms

  • deflagration
  • detonation

Related terms

  • combustible
  • combustive
  • combustor
  • spontaneous combustion

Translations


French

Etymology

From Old French combustion, from Latin combustio, from comburere (to burn), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??.bys.tj??/
  • Homophone: combustions
  • Hyphenation: com?bus?tion

Noun

combustion f (plural combustions)

  1. combustion, burning, incineration

Derived terms

  • chambre de combustion
  • combustible
  • turbine à gaz de combustion

Related terms

  • comburant

Further reading

  • “combustion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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)

  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

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