What does flame mean?
Definitions for flame
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word flame.
Princeton's WordNet
fire, flame, flamingverb
the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
"fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
flare, flameverb
shine with a sudden light
"The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"
flameverb
be in flames or aflame
"The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"
flameverb
criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium
"the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed"
Wiktionary
flamenoun
The visible part of fire.
flamenoun
A romantic partner or lover in usually short-lived but passionate affair.
flamenoun
Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.
flamenoun
A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
flamenoun
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.
flameverb
To produce flames.
flameverb
To post a destructively critical or abusive message, especially to provoke dissent or controversy
flameadjective
Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
Etymology: flaume, flaumbe, blend of flame and flambe, flamble, the first from flamma, the second from flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; akin to gled.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FLAMEnoun
Etymology: flamma, Latin; flamme, French.
Is not flame a vapour, fume, or exhalation heated red hot, that is, so hot as to shine? For bodies do not flame without emitting a copious fume, and this fume burns in the flame. Isaac Newton, Opt.
What flame, what lightning e’er
So quick an active force did bear! Abraham Cowley.Jove, Prometheus’ theft allow;
The flames he once stole from thee, grant him now. Abraham Cowley.Of all our elder plays,
This and Philaster have the loudest fame;
Great are their faults, and glorious is their flame:
In both our English genius is exprest,
Lofty and bold, but negligently drest. Edmund Waller.Smit with the love of kindred arts we came,
And met congeneal, mingling flame with flame. Alexander Pope.My heart’s on flame, and does like fire
To her aspire. Abraham Cowley.Come arm’d in flames; for I would prove
All the extremities of love. Abraham Cowley.No warning of th’ approaching flame;
Swiftly like sudden death it came:
I lov’d the moment I beheld. George Granville.To Flameverb
Etymology: from the noun.
Can you think to blow out the intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with such weak breath as this? William Shakespeare.
He fell flaming through th’ ethereal sky
To bottomless perdition. John Milton.Hell all around
As one great furnace flam’d. John Milton.Behold it like an ample curtain spread,
Now streak’d and glowing with the morning red;
Anon at noon in flaming yellow bright,
And chusing sable for the peaceful night. Matthew Prior.
Wikipedia
Flame
A flame (from Latin flamma) is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic chemical reaction taking place in a thin zone. When flames are hot enough to have ionized gaseous components of sufficient density they are then considered plasma.
ChatGPT
flame
A flame is a body of burning gases emitting heat and light, often produced by combustion or a chemical reaction. It is typically characterized by its warm color range from bluish white to orange, yellow, or red, and its visually distinctive shape. The size, color, and intensity of a flame can vary depending on the type of fuel and the amount of oxygen available.
Webster Dictionary
Flamenoun
a stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire
Flamenoun
burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger
Flamenoun
ardor of affection; the passion of love
Flamenoun
a person beloved; a sweetheart
Flamenoun
to burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze
Flamenoun
to burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor
Flameverb
to kindle; to inflame; to excite
Etymology: [OE. flamen, flaumben, F. flamber, OF. also, flamer. See Flame, n.]
Wikidata
Flame
A flame is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic reaction taking place in a thin zone. Some flames, such as the flame of a burning candle, are hot enough to have ionized gaseous components and can be considered plasma. This subject is, however, hotly debated.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Flame
flām, 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. [O. Fr. flambe—L. flamma—flagrāre, to burn.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
flame
[at MIT, orig. from the phrase flaming asshole] 1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke. 2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude. 3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people. 4. n. An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants “Now you're just flaming” or “Stop all that flamage!” to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).The term may have been independently invented at several different places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of Virginia in the early 1960s.It is possible that the hackish sense of ‘flame’ is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called “the fleminge of wrecches.” This phrase seems to have been intended in context as “that which puts the wretches to flight” but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as “the flaming of wretches” would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'flame' in Nouns Frequency: #1666
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Anagrams for flame »
fleam
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flame in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flame in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of flame in a Sentence
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth.
The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President, the President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.
There's a lot of smoke here, no definitive flame, but database goes down. No sharing of samples of these potential lab workers who got sickened. No forensic analysis of the lab. It starts to sound like there wasn't a really definitive investigation of the lab-leak theory.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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- vlamAfrikaans
- لهبArabic
- alovAzerbaijani
- полымяBelarusian
- страст, пламтя, пламвам, пламъкBulgarian
- flamaCatalan, Valencian
- milenec, milenka, plamenCzech
- lue, flamme, blusseDanish
- Lohe, Flamme, anmachenGerman
- έρωτας, φλέγομαι, φλόγα, αίσθημαGreek
- flamoEsperanto
- llama, flamaSpanish
- leek, leimEstonian
- gar, karBasque
- شعلهPersian
- liekkiFinnish
- flamme, polémiqueFrench
- flamWestern Frisian
- lasairIrish
- lasairScottish Gaelic
- chamaGalician
- להבה, אֵשׁHebrew
- लौHindi
- lángHungarian
- բոց, հուրArmenian
- flamma, flammarInterlingua
- nyala, apiIndonesian
- logiIcelandic
- fiamma, infiammare, fiammeggiare, flameItalian
- להבהHebrew
- 彼女, フレーム, 火炎, 叩く, 恋人, 彼, 炎, 炎色, 燃える, 燃え上がるJapanese
- ალიGeorgian
- жалынKazakh
- ಜ್ವಾಲೆಯKannada
- 불꽃, 불길Korean
- بڵێسه, ئاگرگرتنKurdish
- flamma, ignisLatin
- liepsnaLithuanian
- guns, liesmaLatvian
- lelàfoMalagasy
- muraMāori
- пламенMacedonian
- vlam, vlammen, laaien, laaiDutch
- flammeNorwegian
- flambaOccitan
- kochanka, kochanek, ognistoczerwony, płomień, krytycyzmPolish
- flama, chama, inflamarPortuguese
- flacără, văpaie, iubit, înflăcăra, pară, iubităRomanian
- полымя, пламень, флейм, пламя, страсть, предмет любви, пылать, флеймитьRussian
- ciamma, fiama, fiammaSardinian
- plamen, пламенSerbo-Croatian
- plameňSlovak
- plamenSlovene
- flakëAlbanian
- flamma, låga, brandgul, flamma uppSwedish
- சுடர்Tamil
- మంట, జ్వాలTelugu
- เปลวไฟThai
- alev, ateş kırmızısıTurkish
- полум'я, flameUkrainian
- شعلہUrdu
- ngọn lửaVietnamese
- פלאַםYiddish
- 火焰Chinese
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