Flame
[fleɪm] or [flem]
Definition
(verb.) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium; 'the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed'.
(verb.) be in flames or aflame; 'The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset'.
Checker: Maisie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
(n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
(n.) Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
(n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart.
(n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
(n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
(v. t.) To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Blaze, burning vapor.[2]. Fire.[3]. Ardor, fervor, fervency, warmth, enthusiasm.[4]. [Colloquial.] Love, sweetheart.
v. n. Blaze.
Editor: Oswald
Definition
n. gaseous matter undergoing combustion: the gleam or blaze of a fire: rage: ardour of temper: vigour of thought: warmth of affection: love: (coll.) the object of love.—v.i. to burn as flame: to break out in passion.—adjs. Flāme′-col′oured (Shak.) of the colour of flame bright yellow; Flāme′less.—n. Flāme′let a small flame.—adj. Flām′ing red: gaudy: violent.—adv. Flām′ingly.—n. Flammabil′ity.—adjs. Flammif′erous producing flame; Flammiv′omous vomiting flames.—n. Flam′mule the flames in pictures of Japanese deities.—adj. Flām′y pertaining to or like flame.
Typist: Miguel
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of fighting flames, foretells that you will have to put forth your best efforts and energy if you are successful in amassing wealth. See Fire.
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Examples
- And who is that nice good-natured looking creature with her--a flame of yours? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Do you mind putting out the flame under the chafingdish, Rupert? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And all the while they two were hovering, hesitating round the flame of some invisible declaration. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yorke, she rose, she grew tall, she expanded and refined almost to flame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The light rose in the room, then sank to a small dimness, as the flame sank down on the candle, before it mounted again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He became deadly pale, and a dangerous flame darkened his eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She turned out the wall-lights, and peered at herself between the candle-flames. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One turret was now in bright flames, which flashed out furiously from window and shot-hole. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Put up 'A Voice from the Flames,' 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho,' and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One night he built a fire in the grate and started to throw pistol cartridges into the flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If the woman's fierce temper once got beyond her control, and once flamed out on me, she might yet say the words which would put the clue in my hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The girl's temper flamed out directly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- After all it is a club flamed for me and I have an obligation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of gray smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Close after her came Tattycoram in a flaming rage. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I cannot see that there is anything very funny, cried our client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is a mass of flaming matter, having a diameter of 866,000 miles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The high walls of the tomb, and the flaming sword of plague, lie between it and him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The day grew strong, and showed itself outside, even against the flaming lights within. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- We know that those mountains flaming to the sky were only the customary burning of the dry grass at that season of the year. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, to be sure, the good lady who showed us his house did give him a most flaming character! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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