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| English Dictionary: Flaming |
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| 4 results for Flaming |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- flaming
- adj
- informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking)
nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
Synonym(s): bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)
- very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
Synonym(s): fiery, flaming
- n
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials
producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
Synonym(s): fire, flame, flaming
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Flame \Flame\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flaming}.] [OE. flamen, flaumben, F. flamber, OF. also,
flamer. See {Flame}, n.]
1. To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from
bodies in combustion; to blaze.
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again. --Shak.
2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of
passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
He flamed with indignation. --Macaulay.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Flaming \Flam"ing\, a.
1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
[bd]In flaming yellow bright.[b8] --Prior.
3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly
earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
flaming
{flame}
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