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🔥 A strong flame 💡 To shine strongly 💨 To move fast 🔫 To shoot rapidly 🌲 To mark a path 🐴 A white marking
blaze

blaze

5 6.9
A white mark on an animal's face or on a tree to show a path
  • noun
  • /bleɪz/
translation icon : franja blanca
  • I grew a little anxious when I couldn't see any blazes on the nearby trees.
  • white blaze
  • trail blaze
  • yellow blaze

Examples

  • "Why would anyone need a tape that is blaze orange?" I asked.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • From behind the house strode a man wearing brown laced boots and a blaze-orange hunting cap.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Wait till deer season and look around for the blaze orange caps.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Anyway, Ceph was beautiful, a roan with a blaze and white stockings.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • A campus cop in a blaze-orange vest motioned them in and pointed toward the dorms.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The horse has a distinctive blaze running down its face that sets it apart from the others.

  • I spotted a blaze marked on the tree, indicating the right path to follow on the hiking trail.

  • The pale blaze on the dog's fur made it easy to recognize in a crowd.

Antonyms

unmarked
43 4.3

Having no mark or label to show who it belongs to

Idioms

to blaze a trail
  • Informal
4 5.3

To do something new first so other people can follow

How Large

blaze
5 6.9
stripe
101 1.0

Surface Forms

blaze singular
blazes plural

Etymology

The word blaze for a white mark comes from an old word meaning 'white patch', so picture a bright stripe on a horse's face that stands out like a flash and you will remember this meaning.