blaze
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (5)
- a strong flame that burns brightly“the blaze spread rapidly”Synonyms: blazing
- a cause of difficulty and suffering“war is hell”“go to blazes”Synonyms: hell
- noisy and unrestrained mischief“raising blazes”Synonyms: hell
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted“a glare of sunlight”Synonyms: glarebrilliance
- a light-colored marking“they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes”“the horse had a blaze between its eyes”
Verb (5)
- shine brightly and intensively“Meteors blazed across the atmosphere”
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly“He blazed away at the men”Synonyms: blaze away
- burn brightly and intensely“The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze”
- move rapidly and as if blazing“The spaceship blazed out into space”Synonyms: blaze out
- indicate by marking trees with blazes“blaze a trail”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." --Croly. [1913 Webster]
2.Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. [1913 Webster]
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!— Milton.[1913 Webster]
3.A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
For what is glory but the blaze of fame?— Milton.[1913 Webster]
4.[Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the forehead of a horse. [1913 Webster]
5.A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. [1913 Webster]
Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road.— Carlton.[1913 Webster]
In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated.
Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." --Poem in Essex dialect. [1913 Webster]
Note: In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes. --Neal. [1913 Webster]
Usage: A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames. [1913 Webster]
1.To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes. [1913 Webster]
2.To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. [1913 Webster]
And far and wide the icy summit blazed.— Wordsworth.[1913 Webster]
3.To be resplendent. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
1.To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. [1913 Webster]
I found my way by the blazed trees.— Hoffman.[1913 Webster]
2.To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. [1913 Webster]
Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others.— Nott.[1913 Webster]
1.To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. [1913 Webster]
On charitable lists he blazed his name.— Pollok.[1913 Webster]
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
2.(Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] --Peacham. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A single assignment language for parallel processing.
["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)].