Definition of Blaze

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Definition of Blaze

Blaze

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.

A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.

A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

To be resplendent.

To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

To blazon.

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Blaze Quotations

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
Knut Hamsun

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Talib Kweli

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
Zane Grey

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Major Taylor

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
Helen Hunt Jackson

When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
Luther Martin

Blaze Translations

blaze in Swedish is flamma

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