transcription, транскрипция: [ fleɪm ]
( flames, flaming, flamed)
1.
A flame is a hot bright stream of burning gas that comes from something that is burning.
The heat from the flames was so intense that roads melted.
...a huge ball of flame.
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2.
A flame is an e-mail message which severely criticizes or attacks someone. ( COMPUTING INFORMAL )
The best way to respond to a flame is to ignore it.
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Flame is also a verb.
Ever been flamed?
VERB : V n
3.
see also flaming , old flame
4.
If something bursts into flames or bursts into flame , it suddenly starts burning strongly.
She managed to scramble out of the vehicle as it burst into flames.
PHRASE : V inflects
5.
If someone or something fans the flames of a situation or feeling, usually a bad one, they make it more intense or extreme in some way.
He accused the Tories of ‘fanning the flames of extremism’.
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
If something goes up in flames , it starts to burn strongly and is destroyed.
Fires broke out everywhere, the entire city went up in flames.
PHRASE : V inflects
7.
Something that is in flames is on fire.
PHRASE : v-link PHR