English Dictionary

blaze

/bleɪz/

noun

A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. / Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. / The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.

The blaze quickly spread through the forest.

意味（1）

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,[…].

意味（2）

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.

to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun

意味（3）

The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.

The palomino had a white blaze on its face.

意味（4）

(color) A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.

blaze:

意味（5）

A bursting out, or active display of any quality.

his blaze of wrath

意味（6）

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.

意味（7）

(poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.