Blazing

Definitions: Blazing

Blazing

Adjective

1. Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun".

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".

3. Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "open disregard of the law"; "open family strife"; "open hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion".

Noun

1. A strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly".

Date "blazing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Blazing

Synonyms: ablaze(p) (adj), afire(p) (adj), aflame(p) (adj), aflare(p) (adj), alight(p) (adj), blatant (adj), blinding (adj), burning (adj), conspicuous (adj), dazzling (adj), flaming (adj), fulgent (adj), glaring (adj), glary (adj), on fire(p) (adj), open (adj), blaze (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heat	Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Blazing

English words defined with "blazing": blatant, blaze, blaze out, blazing star, blinding ♦ conspicuous, crackle ♦ dazzling, dense blazing star ♦ Flamy, Flapdragon, fulgent ♦ glaring, glary ♦ open ♦ rattlesnake's master ♦ superior ♦ unicorn root. (references)

Specialty definitions using "blazing": Berners ♦ Flap-dragons ♦ Goody Blake ♦ Vanity ♦ Wishart. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ooh! Her pants are blazing for you, Newton Crosby! (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson) Oooooh! Her pants are blazing for you! (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson) Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought - (Fantastic Voyage; writing credit: Jerome Bixby; David Duncan) Listen, you can take it from me, our existence as we know it is not gonna end on the first of January underneath a great, blazing, fiery ball of flame. (Dark Ages; writing credit: Rob Grant)
Lyrics	Cannons a blazing shower these moonlit skies (This Time Around; performing artist: Hanson)
Movie/TV Titles	Blazing Saddles (1974) The Blazing Ninja (1973) Blazing the Overland Trail (1956) The Blazing Caravan (1954) Blazing Bullets (1951)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	By a Blazing Blue Sea (reference) Fairy Dusters and Blazing Stars: Exploring Wildflowers With Children (reference) The Blazing Lights of the Sun: A Bilingual Edition (Sun & Moon Classics, No 84) (reference) The Bush Was Blazing but Not Consumed: Developing a Multicultural Community Through Dialogue and Liturgy (reference) The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World and Other Writings (Nyu Press Women's Classics) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Blazing Saddles (reference) Blazing Saddles - Limited Edition Collector's Set (reference) The Blazing Temple (reference) Blazing Saddles - Special Edition (reference) Blazing Saddles (Special Widescreen Edition) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Blazing Brass (reference) A Blazing Grace (reference) Blazing Away [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Blazing Dragons (reference) Blazing Heroes (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	RESEARCHER bow in a blazing Pacific sunset.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		A streak of blazing sky on the northern horizon.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	A streak of blazing sky on the northern horizon.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		A blazing sunset.Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous.		Fireball; meteor; fiery; ablaze; afire; aflame; alight; blazing; burning; conflagrant; flaming; flaring; ignited; lighted; afire; fire.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Pindar	Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Three Voices	Carroll, Lewis	When, at high Noon, the blazing sky Scorched in his head each haggard eye, Then keenest rose his weary cry.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows, seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was the reflection of the torch which was blazing in the barricade of Corinth.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Her eyes were blazing with resentment.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		While franchising may make great sense, particularly in English teaching and IT training, anyone venturing here will be blazing new trails. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? Hannibal Hunsiker
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Blazing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 62.95% of the time. "Blazing" is used about 421 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	62.95%	265	18,112
Adjective (general or positive)	33.02%	139	26,913
Noun (proper)	3.56%	15	90,616
Noun (singular)	0.24%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.24%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	421	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "blazing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Blazing	Last name	100	87,674
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "blazing": be blazing ♦ blazing fire ♦ blazing hot ♦ blazing scent ♦ Blazing star ♦ blazing up ♦ dense blazing star. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "blazing": blazing-hot, blazing-star.
	Ending with "blazing": trail-blazing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "blazing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që flakëron, flakë (blaze, burst, flame, shining). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملتهب (ablaze, aflame, burning, fiery, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, red-hot, vehement), ‏محرق (burning, focal point, focus, mordant, pungent), ‏متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), ‏متوهج (aglow, ardent, fervent, flamboyant, flame, flash, garish, glowing, incandescent, live, lurid, radiant), ‏مشتعل (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, be alight, burner, burning, conflagrant, flaring, in flames, on fire), ‏لامع (bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring). (various references)

Bulgarian		ярък (bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), явен (apparent, decided, declared, distinct, downright, evident, Frank, glaring, manifest, marked, noticeable, obvious, open, ostensible, outright, overt, palpable, patent, plain, Plumb, pointed, professed, pronounced, rank, self-explanatory, sheer, thumping, transparent, unconcealed, unmistakable, visible), пламтящ (aflame, fiery, flaming, lurid), пламнал (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, glowing). (various references)

Chinese		煃 (fiery), 燃烧 (Blazed, Combustion, IGN, ignition), 燡 (radiant). (various references)

Czech		zuřivý (ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, furred, rabid, savage, vehement, violent), sálající (scorching), planoucí (aglow, burning, flaming, flamy), palèivý (burning, pungent, torrid, urgent), horký (fervent, hot, scalding, torrid). (various references)

Danish		åbenlys forbrænding (blazing combustion). (various references)

Dutch		explosieve verbranding (blazing combustion, burning, deflagration). (various references)

Farsi		مشتعل (Ablaze, Aflame). (various references)

Finnish		paahtaa (barbecue, be blazing hot, grill, heat, roast, scorch, toast). (various references)

French		brûlant, très vif, enflammé, en flammes, en feu, étincelant, éclatant. (various references)

German		lodernd (ablaze, flaming), brennend (afire, alight, ardent, blistering, burning, consuming, fervid, flaming, lighted, parchingly, raging, scorching), aufflammend (flaming up). (various references)

Greek		καύση με φλόγες (blazing combustion). (various references)

Hebrew		אש ל�"ב�". (various references)

Hungarian		lángoló (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, flaming, flamy, flaring, lurid, red-hot), lobogó (banner, bickering, bunting, flag, flaming, flaring, flaunting, flying, standard, streamer). (various references)

Indonesian		berpijar (incandescent), pijar (glowing, incandescent, red-hot), menggelegar (booming). (various references)

Italian		sfolgorante (brilliant), fiammeggiante (ablaze, flamboyant, flaming), fiammante (bright, flaming). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		炎炎 , 爛爛たる (flaming, glaring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ら�"ら�"たる (flaming, glaring), え�"え�" (gasping, meandering, wandering). (various references)

Korean		타오름. (various references)

Manx		strilleenagh, lossanagh (aglow, auroral, bright, flaming, flaring, genial, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, phosphorescent, varnish). (various references)

Pig Latin		azingblay

Portuguese		resplandecente (bright, flaring, fulgurate, glorious, lucid, luminous, refulgent, resplendent, reverberant, reverberating), em chamas (afire, aflame, alight), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm). (various references)

Romanian		aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid). (various references)

Russian		ярко горящий. (various references)

Scottish		bradhadair (a blazing fire), ste� irn (a blazing fire), dreallsach (a blazing fire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji bukti, gorući (ablaze, burning, hot, urgent). (various references)

Spanish		llameante (bacterial flaming, flaming). (various references)

Swedish		gassig (broiling), gassande (broiling), flammande (fiery, flamboyant, flaming, flamy, flared). (various references)

Turkish		belirgin (clear, clear-cut, distinct, distinctive, evident, explicit, manifest, marked, prominent, pronounced, salient, sharp cut, thick, upfront), bariz (apparent, as plain as a pikestaff, avowed, blatant, conspicuous, conspicuously, gross, pronounced, sharp), yanan (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, burning, flaming), keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), alevlenmiş, çarpıcı (conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, flashy, intense, salient, showy, striking, stunning). (various references)

Vietnamese		sáng chói rõ r� ng, rực sáng, r� nh r� nh (downright, emphatic, flagrant, glaring, glaringly, glary, tactile), nóng rực; cháy sáng. (various references)

Welsh		gwenfflam (ablaze), fflamllyd (flaming), ffaglog (flaming). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	flagrante, fraglans, fraglantia. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	saociñtãm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "blazing": blazingly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "blazing": emblazing, imblazing, outblazing, trailblazing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Blazing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balzanii, Balzarini, blading, blasing, Elazig. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "blazing" (pronounced blā"zing)
5	-l ā" z i ng	glazing.
4	-ā" z i ng	amazing, appraising, gazing, grazing, hazing, phasing, phrasing, praising, raising, razing.
3	-z i ng	abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, arising, arousing, authorizing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, generalizing, glamorizing, harmonizing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-z"
	-1 letter: baling, lazing.
	-2 letters: algin, align, binal, blain, liang, ligan, linga.
	-3 letters: agin, anil, bail, bang, bani, blin, gain, glia, glib, lain, lang, ling, nail, nazi, zing.
	-4 letters: ail, ain, alb, ani, bag, bal, ban, big, bin, biz, gab, gal, gan, gib, gin, lab, lag, lib, lin, nab, nag, nib, nil, zag, zig, zin.
	-5 letters: ab.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-n-z"
	+2 letters: blazingly, blazoning, emblazing, imblazing.
	+3 letters: banalizing, bedazzling, blazonings, cognizable, cognizably, outblazing, zabaglione.
	+4 letters: balkanizing, bamboozling, brutalizing, diabolizing, emblazoning, globalizing, labializing, marbleizing, organizable, stabilizing, verbalizing, zabagliones.
	+5 letters: absolutizing, bestializing, bipolarizing, burglarizing, catabolizing, liberalizing, magnetizable, metabolizing, recognizable, recognizably, trailblazing.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 7A 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... .-.. .- --.. .. -. --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01111010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#122 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 007A 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
blazing saddle	248	blazing haley	7
blazing ever lyrics paul sean	89	blazing hero	7
blazing ever lyrics	46	blazing wand	6
blazing star	41	blazing clip saddle sound	6
blazing squad	33	blazing paddles	6
blazing ever paul sean	29	blazing mongo saddle	6
beauty blazing	25	blazing hot	6
blazing dragon	19	blazing saddle script	6
blazing saddle wav	18	blazing gavels	6
blazing ever	18	blazing mp3 saddle	6
blazing saddle sound	18	blazing star flower	5
blazing quote saddle	13	bite blazing saddle sound	5
blazing saddle wavs	11	blazing eternity	5
blazing saddle movie	10	blazing resort rv star	5
blazing cast saddle	10	angel blazing	5
blazing by ever lyrics paul sean	9	blazing firehunt portal web	5
blazing	9	blazing key logger perfect tool	4
blazing file saddle wav	8	blazing lyrics saddle	4
blazing picture saddle	7	blazing sevens	4
blazing tool	7	blazing emblem fire sword	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Blazing

Definitions: Blazing

Blazing

Adjective

Noun

Synonyms: Blazing

Synonyms within Context: Blazing

Heat

Crosswords: Blazing

Modern Usage: Blazing

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Image Slideshow: Blazing

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Photo Album: Blazing

Sounds Captioned with "Blazing".

Familiar Quotations: Blazing

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pindar

Use in Literature: Blazing

Three Voices

Carroll, Lewis

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Blazing

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Blazing

Name Usage Frequency: Blazing

Expression: Blazing

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blazing

Modern Translations: Blazing

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Ancestral Language Translations: Blazing

Derivations & Misspellings: Blazing

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Rhyming with "Blazing"

Anagrams: Blazing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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Blazing