flame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flām
ipa: /fleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: flames
Etymology: From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
Senses: examples: text: 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[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
examples: text: I could copy out yards of rhapsody to Lord George Poynings, her old flame, in which she addressed him by the most affectionate names.
ref: 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Conclusion”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: admirer
word: adorer
word: baby
word: beloved
word: courter
word: crush
word: darling
word: enamorado
word: flame
word: follower
word: leman
word: loteby
word: love
word: love interest
word: lover
word: paramour
word: sparker
word: sweetheart
word: truelove
word: wooer
glosses: A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
examples: text: Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.
ref: 1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Usenet Newsgroups, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.
examples: text: [M]arked by myriad clouds of every sunset-colour - flame, purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 73:
glosses: A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
glosses: A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
flame:
flame
examples: text: The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.
topics: arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
glosses: The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
examples: text: in a flame of zeal severe
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: Till charming Florio, born to conquer, came
And touch'd the fair one with an equal flame
ref: 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Julia:
glosses: Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
examples: text: The Gardeners divide it into Five Claſſes, which they diſtinguiſh by the Name of Picketees, Painted Ladies, Beazarts, Flakes, and Flames: […] the Flames have a red Ground always ſtrip’d with black or very dark Colours.
ref: 1718, Richard Bradley, “Part II. Chapter II: Of Perannual Flowers, the talleſt Blowers. Sect IX. Of the Carnation or July-Flower […] ”, in New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philoſophical and Practical […] , 2nd edition, London: W. Mears, page 82:
text: Sic flow’rs o’ sorts ane seldom sees, / Flecks, flames, bussards an’ picketees, / Wi’ strong carnations, like young trees, / To face the entry; […]
ref: 1812, Peter Forbes, “On going to see a nobleman’s gardener in the neighbourhood”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: R. Menzies, page 89:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A variety of carnation.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: add fuel to the flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: aflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: antiflame
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word: burst into flame
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word: candleflame
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word: cool flame
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word: counterflame
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word: dragonflame
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word: fan the flame
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word: flamage
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word: flameable
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word: flameage
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word: flame-arc lamp
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word: flame aura
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word: flameback
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word: flame bait
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word: flamebait
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word: flame birch
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word: flame carbon
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word: flame cell
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word: flamecrest
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word: flamefest
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word: flameflower
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word: flameful
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word: flame graph
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word: flame gun
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word: flamekeeper
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word: flame lamp
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word: flameless
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word: flamelet
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word: flamelight
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word: flamelike
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word: flame lily
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word: flamemail
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word: flame nettle
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word: flame of the forest
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word: flame-of-the-woods
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word: flame out
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word: flame-out
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word: flameout
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word: flame photometry
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word: flameproof
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word: flame-retardant
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word: flame retardant
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word: flame spread
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word: flamestrike
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word: flame structure
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word: flame test
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word: flame thrower
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word: flame-thrower
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word: flamethrower
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word: flamethrowing
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word: flame tree
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word: flame up
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word: flame violet
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word: flame war
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word: flamewar
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word: flamework
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word: flameworker
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word: flameworthy
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word: flammation
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word: flamy
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word: go down in flames
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: go up in flames
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word: hearthflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: inflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: keeper of the flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: like a moth to a flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: like a moth to flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: like a moth to the flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: midflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: old flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: Olympic flame
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word: outflame
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word: oxidizing flame
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word: pillar of flame
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word: pilot flame
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word: postflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: preflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: Red Flames
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: reducing flame
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word: reflame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: singing flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: Taiwan flamecrest
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: twin flame
sense: Terms derived from the noun flame
word: upflame
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word: flamboyant
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: flamingo
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: flammable
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: oriflamme
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: phlegm
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: phlogiston
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: phlogopite
sense: Terms related to the noun flame
word: phlox