blaze

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
    — The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
  2. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
  3. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
    — 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,[…].
  4. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
    — They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
  5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
    — 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.
  6. A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
  7. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
  8. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
    — his blaze of wrath
  9. A hand consisting of five face cards.
动词 v.
  1. To blow, as from a trumpet. transitive
  2. To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse). transitive
  3. To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. intransitive
    — The campfire blazed merrily.
  4. To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark). transitive
    — They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart’s tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees “blazed” and marked “S.,” as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration.
  5. To publish; announce publicly. transitive
  6. To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame. intransitive
    — And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
  7. To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.). intransitive,poetic
  8. To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes. transitive
    — The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
  9. To disclose; bewray; defame. transitive
  10. To mark off or stake a claim to land. transitive
    — He blazed his claim on the land.
  11. To blazon. transitive
    — And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.
  12. To set in a blaze; burn. rare,transitive
  13. To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example. figuratively,transitive
    — Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.
  14. To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with. transitive
  15. To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage. figuratively
    — “I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl.
  16. To smoke marijuana. slang
    — I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing

词形变化

blazes plural blazes present,singular,third-person blazing participle,present blazed participle,past blazed past blazes plural blazes present,singular,third-person blazing participle,present blazed participle,past blazed past blazes present,singular,third-person blazing participle,present blazed participle,past blazed past blazes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ablaze blazar blazeless blazen blaze of glory blaze orange blazer blaze-up blazy emblaze imblaze outblaze reblaze rekern upblaze
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”).
Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).
词源 2
From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.
词源 3
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A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.
词源 4
From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.
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