blaze
English
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Etymology 1
From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), 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”). 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.
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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, […].
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- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- The palomino had a white blaze on its 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.
- 1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Early Years in the Far West - Page 71[1]:
- 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.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.
Verb
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- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- The campfire blazed merrily.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (Can we date this quote by William Wordsworth and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by William Wordsworth and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (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.
- The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
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Etymology 3
From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.
Verb
blaze (third-person singular simple present blaz, present participle ing, 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “blaze”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Czech
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Adverb
blaze (comparative blažeji, superlative nejblažeji)
- blissfully, happily
- 1868, Emanuel František Züngel, “Triolet”, in Básně[2], pages 20–21:
- Pak budu zas tiše, blaze žíti,
zapomenuv na to, co mne hnětlo;
mír a pokoj budu v duši míti.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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blaze
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Verb
blaze
- to blow
Inflection
Strong class 7 | ||||
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infinitive | blaze | |||
3rd singular past | blies | |||
past participle | blazen | |||
infinitive | blaze | |||
long infinitive | blazen | |||
gerund | blazen n | |||
auxiliary | hawwe | |||
indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
1st singular | blaas | blies | ||
2nd singular | blaast | bliest | ||
3rd singular | blaast | blies | ||
plural | blaze | bliezen | ||
imperative | blaas | |||
participles | blazend | blazen |
Weak class 1 | ||||
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infinitive | blaze | |||
3rd singular past | blaasde | |||
past participle | blaasd | |||
infinitive | blaze | |||
long infinitive | blazen | |||
gerund | blazen n | |||
auxiliary | hawwe | |||
indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
1st singular | blaas | blaasde | ||
2nd singular | blaast | blaasdest | ||
3rd singular | blaast | blaasde | ||
plural | blaze | blaasden | ||
imperative | blaas | |||
participles | blazend | blaasd |
Further reading
- “blaze (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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