Blaze
Definitions
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A male given name from Latin.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- A hand consisting of five face cards.
Equivalents
Examples
“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,[…].”
“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!”
“his blaze of wrath”
“For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”
“The palomino had a white blaze on its face⟳.”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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