Definition of flame

"flame" in the noun sense

1. fire, flame, flaming

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

"fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

"flame" in the verb sense

1. flare, flame

shine with a sudden light

"The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"

2. flame

be in flames or aflame

"The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"

3. flame

criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium

"the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed"

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Quotations for flame

Vital spark of heavenly flame! [ Pope ]

Envy, like flame, soars upwards. [ Livy ]

Affection lights a brighter flame
Than ever blazed by art. [ William Cowper ]

Impatience changeth smoke to flame. [ Erasmus ]

Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]

Oh, no! My heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame. [ Miss Landon ]

Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame. [ Gay ]

Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
A fitful tongue of leaping flame:
A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
A few swift years, and who can show,
Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe? [ O. W. Holmes ]

Love must be as much a light as a flame. [ Thoreau ]

Love is indestructible,
Its holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. [ Southey ]

He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? [ Milton ]

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies. [ Horace Mann ]

From little spark may burst a mighty flame. [ Dante ]

The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. [ Motto ]

Hymen comes after love, as smoke after flame. [ Chamfort ]

Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar
In one bright flame, and then return no more. [ John Dryden ]

Faith is the flame that lifts the sacrifice to heaven. [ J. Montgomery ]

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame
Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise
Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes:
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed,
And the heart's secret was at once confessed? [ Abraham Coles ]

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. [ William Shakespeare ]

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Where there is smoke there is fire (flame is very close to smoke). [ Plaut ]

Love often reillumes his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy. [ Lady Blessington ]

Truth, and a soul that is ready for truth, meet like the fuel and the flame. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When the husband is fire, and the wife tow, the devil easily sets all in a flame. [ Proverb ]

Eyes not down-dropped nor overbright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. [ Cudworth ]

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. [ Lamartine ]

A soul, - a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [ Bible ]

Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tac ]

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. [ Tacitus ]

Imparting knowledge, is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame. [ Jane Porter ]

She felt his flame; but deep within her breast, in bashful coyness or in maiden pride, the soft return concealed. [ Thomson ]

The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. [ Lowell ]

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tacitus ]

The temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men. [ Hazlitt ]

Amusements to virtue are like breezes of air to the flame - gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out. [ David Thomas ]

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. [ South ]

One lamp, thy mother's love, amid the stars shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before the throne of God burn through eternity. [ N. P. Willis ]

The wretch that would wish the poetry of life and feeling to be extinct, let him forever dwell in flame, in frost, in ever-during night. [ Dante ]

Give me but these, - a spirit tempest-tried, a brow unshrinking, and a soul of flame; the joy of conscious worth, its courage and its pride. [ R. T. Conrad ]

True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. [ Joubert ]

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. [ Lowell ]

Written on a Skull: Lamp, what hast thou done with the flame? Skeleton, what hast thou done with the soul? Deserted cage, what hast thou done with the bird? Volcano, what hast thou done with the lava? [ Mme. A. Segalas ]

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. [ Goldsmith ]

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

flame in Scrabble®

The word flame is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters flame:

FLAME
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word flame

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flame in Words With Friends™

The word flame is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters flame:

FLAME
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Words within the letters of flame

2 letter words in flame (8 words)

3 letter words in flame (5 words)

4 letter words in flame (7 words)

5 letter words in flame (1 word)

flame + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving flame

Shorter words in flame

am lam lame

la lam lame

me lame

Longer words containing flame

aflame

enflame enflamed

enflame enflames

flamed enflamed

flamed inflamed reinflamed

flamefish flamefishes

flameless

flamen flamenco flamencos

flameout flameouts

flameproof flameproofed

flameproof flameproofer flameproofers

flameproof flameproofing

flameproof flameproofs

flamers

flames enflames

flames inflames reinflames

flametender flametenders

flamethrower flamethrowers

inflame inflamed reinflamed

inflame inflames reinflames

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