flaming
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again. --Shak.
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2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of
passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
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He flamed with indignation. --Macaulay.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flaming \Flam"ing\, a.
1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
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2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
"In flaming yellow bright." --Prior.
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3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly
earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
{prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
{flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
{monochrome}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
{azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
{brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
{chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
{ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
{orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
{purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
{rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
{tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
{yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
{maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
{sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
{light}.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
flame
flamage
flaming
<messaging> To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or
rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a
patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility toward a
particular person or group of people. "Flame" is used as a
verb ("Don't flame me for this, but..."), a flame is a single
flaming message, and "flamage" /flay'm*j/ the content.
Flamage may occur in any medium (e.g. spoken, {electronic
mail}, {Usenet} news, {World-Wide Web}). Sometimes a flame
will be delimited in text by marks such as "<flame
on>...<flame off>".
The term was probably independently invented at several
different places.
Mark L. Levinson says, "When I joined the Harvard student
radio station (WHRB) in 1966, the terms flame and flamer were
already well established there to refer to impolite ranting
and to those who performed it. Communication among the
students who worked at the station was by means of what today
you might call a paper-based Usenet group. Everyone wrote
comments to one another in a large ledger. Documentary
evidence for the early use of flame/flamer is probably still
there for anyone fanatical enough to research it."
It is reported that "flaming" was in use to mean something
like "interminably drawn-out semi-serious discussions"
(late-night bull sessions) at Carleton College during
1968-1971.
{Usenetter} Marc Ramsey, who was at {WPI} from 1972 to 1976,
says: "I am 99% certain that the use of "flame" originated at
WPI. Those who made a nuisance of themselves insisting that
they needed to use a {TTY} for "real work" came to be known as
"flaming asshole lusers". Other particularly annoying people
became "flaming asshole ravers", which shortened to "flaming
ravers", and ultimately "flamers". I remember someone picking
up on the Human Torch pun, but I don't think "flame on/off"
was ever much used at WPI." See also {asbestos}.
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}.
[{Jargon File}]
(2001-03-11)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
237 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaming":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze,
affected, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent,
bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blasted, blatant, blazing,
bleeding, blinding, bloody, blooming, boiling, boiling over,
breathless, bricky, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, burning,
burning with excitement, candent, candescent, cardinal, carmine,
carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red,
comburent, committed, conflagrant, conspicuous, convoluted,
cordial, crimson, damask, damned, dazzling, declamatory, dedicated,
delirious, devoted, devout, drunk, earnest, effulgent, egregious,
elevated, enthusiastic, euphuistic, excited, extravagant,
exuberant, faithful, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, fervent,
fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, fire-red, flagrant, flamboyant,
flame-colored, flame-red, flaring, flashing, flashy, flaunting,
flickering, flushed, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurating,
fulsome, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glowing,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gules, guttering,
hard-core, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-flowing,
high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, hot,
hot-blooded, hotheaded, ignescent, ignited, impassioned,
in a blaze, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, in rut, incandescent,
incarmined, inflamed, infrared, inkhorn, intense, intent,
intent on, intoxicated, iron-red, keen, kindled, labyrinthine,
lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lexiphanic, live, lively, living,
lobster-red, lofty, loyal, lurid, madcap, magniloquent, maroon,
meretricious, meteoric, obvious, on fire, orotund, ostentatious,
overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, passionate,
pedantic, perfervid, pompous, port-wine, pretentious, puce, red,
red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber,
reddish-brown, reeking, refulgent, resolute, resplendent,
rhetorical, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby,
ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust,
rust-red, rusty, scarlet, scintillant, scintillating, scorching,
seething, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, serious,
sexually excited, showy, sincere, smoking, smoldering, sonorous,
sparking, spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stammel,
steaming, steamy, stilted, tall, tile-red, tortuous,
totally committed, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained,
vehement, vermilion, vigorous, vinaceous, vivid, warm, white-hot,
wine, wine-colored, wine-red, zealous
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