blaze

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//bleɪz//

A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

sustantivo

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.
They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!
3
A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
4
A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
his blaze of wrath
For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
5
A hand consisting of five face cards.

Etimología

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).

verbo

1
To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
The campfire blazed merrily.
2
To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
3
To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
4
raroTo set in a blaze; burn.
5
To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
6
figuradoTo be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
“I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl.
7
jergaTo smoke marijuana.
I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing
Fam, I don’t blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I’m like mm, kill it

Etimología

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

sustantivo

1
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
2
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.
3
A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.

Etimología

] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.

verbo

1
To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
2
To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart’s tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees “blazed” and marked “S.,” as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration.
We drew them up, therefore, and concealed them among the bushes, blazing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again.
3
To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
4
To mark off or stake a claim to land.
He blazed his claim on the land.
5
figuradoTo set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.

verbo

1
To blow, as from a trumpet.
2
To publish; announce publicly.
3
To disclose; bewray; defame.
4
To blazon.
And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.
[...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.
Beinge thus blazed: Henzell On a ffeild Gules, beareth Three Acornes Slipped Or; Two and One.

Etimología

From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.

sustantivo

1
Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

Formas

plural: blazes
pasado: blazed
participio: blazed
gerundio: blazing
3.ª persona del singular: blazes

blasted · Subjected to an explosion.blaster · Anything that, or anyone who blasts.blasting · A planned explosion, as in mining.

blaze · A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

Blaze · A male given name from Latin.blazer · A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A very bright or hot…Blazer · A surname.

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