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Flaming - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Flaming : adj
1: resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze
in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves" [syn: ablaze]
2: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
(or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight
on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a
burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on
fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p),
alight(p), blazing, burning, on fire(p)]
3: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or
blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore";
"you flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a),
blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)]
4: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: fiery]
(noun)
1: the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing
heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our
ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: fire, flame]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Flaming : \Flam"ing\, a.
1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
``In flaming yellow bright.'' --Prior.
3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly
earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Flaming :
flame
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Flaming |
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mortalcoil: I don't think he meant http://bit.ly/6SNvaW RT @jock4twenty burnt my thumb on a Flaming zambuka [sp?]. Ow. |
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mirandakaythies: you should put a bag of Flaming shit on richard's doorstep . |
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Helenjor: Flaming Lips, "Embryonic'" é um disco de tirar o fôlego!!!! Me lembrei do Jeff. |
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