What is "blaze"

Blaze \Blaze\ (bl[=a]z), n. [OE. blase, AS. bl[ae]se, blase; akin to OHG. blass whitish, G. blass pale, MHG. blas torch, Icel. blys torch; perh. fr. the same root as E. blast. Cf. Blast, Blush, Blink.]

1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. ``To heaven the blaze uprolled.''
   --Croly.

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

   O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
   --Milton.

3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. ``Fierce blaze of riot.'' ``His blaze of wrath.''
   --Shak.

   For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
   --Milton.

4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

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

   Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road.
   --Carlton.

   In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated.

   Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] ``The horses did along like blazes tear.''
   --Poem in Essex dialect.

   Note: In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes.
   --Neal.

   Syn: Blaze, Flame.

   Usage: A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames.

Blaze \Blaze\, v. t. [OE. blasen to blow; perh. confused with blast and blaze a flame, OE. blase. Cf. Blaze, v. i., and see Blast.]

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

   On charitable lists he blazed his name.
   --Pollok.

   To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
   --Pope.

2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.]
   --Peacham.

Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing.]

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

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

   And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
   --Wordsworth.

3. To be resplendent.
   --Macaulay.

   To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]

Blaze \Blaze\, v. t.

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

   I found my way by the blazed trees.
   --Hoffman.

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

   Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others.
   --Nott.

"bright flame, fire," Old English blæse "a torch, flame, firebrand, lamp," from Proto-Germanic *blas- "shining, white" (cognates: Old Saxon blas "white, whitish," Middle High German blas "bald," originally "white, shining," Old High German blas-ros "horse with a white spot," Middle Dutch and Dutch bles, German Blesse "white spot," blass "pale, whitish"), from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)).

"light-colored mark or spot," 1630s, northern English dialect, probably from Old Norse blesi "white spot on a horse's face" (from the same root as blaze (n.1)). A Low German cognate of the Norse word also has been suggested as the source. Applied 1660s in American English to marks cut on tree trunks to indicate a track; thus the verb meaning "to mark a trail;" first recorded 1750, American English. Related: Blazed; blazing.

"make public" (often in a bad sense, boastfully), late 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch blasen "to blow" (on a trumpet), from Proto-Germanic *blaes-an (cognates: German blasen, Gothic -blesan), from PIE *bhle-, variant of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).

"to burn brightly or vigorously," c.1200, from blaze (n.1). Related: Blazed; blazing.

"to mark" (a tree, a trail), 1750, American English; see blaze (n.2).

Etymology 1 n. 1 A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. 2 Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. 3 The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. 4 A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing. 5 A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst. 6 A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light. 2 (context intransitive English) To shine like a flame.

1. v. shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"

2. shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men" [syn: blaze away]

3. burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"

4. move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space" [syn: blaze out]

5. indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"

1. n. a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" [syn: blazing]

2. a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes" [syn: hell]

3. noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" [syn: hell]

4. great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color" [syn: glare, brilliance]

5. a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"

Blaze may refer to:

Blaze is a house-music group formed in 1984 in New Jersey, USA.

Blaze is Lagwagon's sixth album, released in 2003.

This album marked their first studio release in five years of absence with Let's Talk About Feelings. The absence was due to frontman Joey Cape being involved with band projects like Bad Astronaut and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Lagwagon did not completely disband during that time and briefly reunited in 2002. It was the first Lagwagon album to rank on the Billboard 200, reaching #172.

Blaze was a rocking-horse toy produced by Mattel toymakers and introduced in 1961. Blaze was featured prominently during children's television advertising (Mattel was the very first toymaker to advertise year around with television commercials). Unlike other rocking-horses of the time, Blaze was mounted on a stand that was said to be "untippable" and had no springs. The apparatus prevented pinched fingers, and was fitted out with a mechanism that moved the horses legs in "real life action." Another Mattel feature allowed Blaze to talk when you pulled his " Magic Ring." His talking voice unit was the very same one produced by Mattel and unveiled in 1960 in its talking Chatty Cathy doll, and later toys like the Talking Mister Ed puppet. Blaze could say 11 different things like, "How about some hay?"; he could also whinny and neigh. A toy like this, that could gallop and move realistically when the horse was rocked forward and backward, was something special.

Blaze was made of what Mattel called "hi-impact plastic" with black-and-white markings (a pinto pony), and a molded black saddle and red blanket. Blaze also had attached reins, fixed hand-posts, and 2-position foot rests. The stand was made of 1-inch tubular steel and was advertised as being "untippable." Saddle height was 29 inches and was recommended for ages 1–7. Blaze was marketed in most retail catalogs, such as Sears, J.C. Penney, and Montgomery Wards. When first issued, Blaze did not have the talking feature, this was added very quickly after his initial release, so there may be versions of this toy that do not, and never did, talk.

Blaze is the mascot of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's athletics teams. He is a fire-breathing European dragon.

UAB's athletic history goes back to 1977, when Gene Bartow was named the school's first athletic director. In January 1978, a campuswide vote bestowed the nickname "Blazers" on the team, hoping that the teams would "blaze" a new trail in college athletics. Originally, there was no official mascot, but that changed in 1995, when a European dragon was chosen as the mascot.

On January 6, 1996, "Blaze" was introduced at a basketball game. "Blaze" is considered a member of the spirit squads, and appears at all football and basketball games. Blaze's head has appeared on the sides of UAB's football helmets since 1996, when the team moved up to Division I-A.

Blaze is a 1989 film written and directed by Ron Shelton. Based on the 1974 memoir Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry by Blaze Starr and Huey Perry, the film stars Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr, with Starr herself in a cameo appearance.

Blaze is a novel by Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact it was written before Carrie and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as 'Salem's Lot. They chose the latter to be his second novel and Blaze became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the book for publication in 2007. The book also contains " Memory," a short story that was first published in 2006 and which King has since worked into Duma Key.

Blaze is the sixth album released by MGM Records in the US and Canada for the band Herman's Hermits. The album was released in October 1967. Blaze was not released in the UK at the time. EMI/Columbia, the group's UK label, did press the LP, but for export sales only.

The Blaze was designed in the mid-90's by Ian Howlett, one time International 14 designer and associated with Americas Cup design work and John Caig, winner of Fireball Worlds. It is a powerful winged single-hander with well-developed 10 m sail. Unusually in recent performance designs both foils are pivoting enabling the centreboard to be adjusted from the wing as well making it particularly suitable for estuaries and shallow lakes.

"Blaze" is Kotoko's eleventh maxi single produced by I've Sound under the Geneon Entertainment label. The single was released on March 12, 2008. The title track was used as the second introductory theme for the anime series Shakugan no Shana Second, starting with episode 16 which was broadcast on January 31, 2008. The B-side, "Sociometry", was used as the ending theme for Shakugan no Shana Second. This is Kotoko's second tie-in with the anime series after her " Being" single.

The CD's catalog number is GNCV-0002 (for the regular edition) and GNCV-0001 (for the special edition, which adds a DVD containing the promotional video of the title track).