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blaze

1  [bleyz] noun, verb, blazed, blaz⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a bright flame or fire: the welcome blaze of the hearth.
2. a bright, hot gleam or glow: the blaze of day.
3. a sparkling brightness: a blaze of jewels.
4. a sudden, intense outburst, as of fire, passion, or fury: to unleash a blaze of pent-up emotions; a blaze of glory.
5. blazes, Informal. hell: Go to blazes!
–verb (used without object)
6. to burn brightly (sometimes fol. by away, up, forth): The bonfire blazed away for hours. The dry wood blazed up at the touch of a match.
7. to shine like flame (sometimes fol. by forth): Their faces blazed with enthusiasm.
8. to burn with intense feeling or passion (sometimes fol. by up): He blazed up at the insult.
9. to shoot steadily or continuously (usually fol. by away): The contestants blazed away at the clay pigeons.
10. to be brilliantly conspicuous.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE blase torch, flame; c. MHG blas torch

Synonyms:
1. See flame.
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2  [bleyz] noun, verb, blazed, blaz⋅ing.
–noun
1. a spot or mark made on a tree, as by painting or notching or by chipping away a piece of the bark, to indicate a trail or boundary.
2. a white area down the center of the face of a horse, cow, etc.
–verb (used with object)
3. to mark with blazes: to blaze a trail.
4. to lead in forming or finding (a new method, course, etc.): His research in rocketry blazed the way for space travel.
Origin:
1655–65; akin to ON blesi, D bles, G Blässe white mark on a beast's face, and to G blass pale

blaze

3  [bleyz]
–verb (used with object), blazed, blaz⋅ing.
1. to make known; proclaim; publish: Headlines blazed the shocking news.
2. Obsolete. to blow, as from a trumpet.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME blasen < MD; c. ON blāsa to blow. See blast
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blaze 1   (blāz)   
n.  

    1. A brilliant burst of fire; a flame.

    2. A destructive fire.

  2. A bright or steady light or glare: the blaze of the desert sun.

  3. A brilliant, striking display: flowers that were a blaze of color.

  4. A sudden outburst, as of emotion: a blaze of anger.

  5. blazes Used as an intensive: Where in blazes are my keys?

v.   blazed, blaz·ing, blaz·es

v.   intr.

  1. To burn with a bright flame.

  2. To shine brightly.

  3. To be resplendent: a garden blazing with flowers.

  4. To flare up suddenly: My neighbor's temper blazed.

  5. To shoot rapidly and continuously: Machine guns blazed.

v.   tr.
To shine or be resplendent with: eyes that blazed hatred.

[Middle English blase, from Old English blæse; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
blaz'ing·ly adv.
blaze 2   (blāz)   
n.  

  1. A white or light-colored spot or stripe on the face of an animal, such as a horse.

  2. A mark cut or painted on a tree to indicate a trail.

tr.v.   blazed, blaz·ing, blaz·es

  1. To mark (a tree) with or as if with blazes.

  2. To indicate (a trail) by marking trees with blazes.


[Of Germanic origin; akin to blaze1.]
blaze 3   (blāz)   
tr.v.   blazed, blaz·ing, blaz·es
To make known publicly; proclaim: Headlines blazed the news.

[Middle English blasen, from Middle Dutch blāsen, to blow up, swell; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
blaze

  1. in.
    to smoke marijuana. : The teacher caught two of them blazing in the john.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

blaze  (1)
"fire," O.E. blæse "a torch, flame," from P.Gmc. *blason, from PIE *bhles- "shine," from base *bhel- (see black). The verb is c.1225. Blazes as a euphemism for "hell" dates from 1818.

blaze  (2)
"light-colored mark or spot," 1639, northern Eng. dialect, probably from O.N. blesi "white spot on a horse's face" (from the same root as blaze (1)). Applied 1662 in Amer.Eng. to marks cut on tree trunks to indicate a track. The verb "to mark a trail" is first recorded 1750, Amer.Eng.

blaze  (3)
"make public" (often in a bad sense, boastfully), c.1384, from M.Du. blasen "to blow" (on a trumpet), from P.Gmc. *blaes-an, from PIE *bhle-, var. of base *bhel- "to swell, blow up" (see bole).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: blaze
Pronunciation: 'blAz
Function: noun
: a white or gray streak in the hair of the head
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

BLAZE
A single assignment language for parallel processing.
["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)].

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

blaze

In addition to the idiom beginning with blaze, also see hot as blazes; like greased lightning (blazes).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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