What's the difference between balefire and bonfire?

Balefire


Definition:

  • (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

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Bonfire


Definition:

  • (n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (2) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
  • (3) They had a sprawling back garden on two tiers and with a steep bank down to the main road below; this was where the big bonfire used to burn.
  • (4) Jim Docking, Betchworth, Surrey Any answers Why is it a "bonfire", rather than plain "fire"?
  • (5) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
  • (6) It was published this week in response to freedom of information requests and immediately caused a stir with its controversial call for a bonfire of traditional employee rights.
  • (7) The bonfire of red tape is a surprisingly modest conflagration, which the (mainly industry-funded) potato people will survive.
  • (8) I said to Ben-David: ‘Enough!’ I got into the car and suddenly I saw a huge bonfire and understood the meaning.
  • (9) Any witness in any proceeding – proper judicial, or quasi judicial – is unlikely to throw any fuel on that particular bonfire.
  • (10) At least, that’s what I tell myself as I light another cigarette off the bonfire I made from burning all my daughter’s sexist toys.
  • (11) The " bonfire of the quangos " saw the Food Standards Agency severely cut and stripped of responsibility for food quality.
  • (12) It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU.
  • (13) Labour made him head of the Homes and Communities Agency; the Tories, evidently impressed by such a bonfire of public assets, made him their permanent secretary for communities and local government.
  • (14) With Halloweeen and Bonfire night behind us, the countdown to Christmas has truly started.
  • (15) One issue is the lack of a single voice for cycling issues in government after Cycling England was abolished in April in the "bonfire of the quangos".
  • (16) Chief among these, according to Labour, was Cameron's threat, if elected, to burn, in a "bonfire of quangos", Ofcom, which is conducting the review of pay television vehemently opposed by the substantially Murdoch-owned BSkyB.
  • (17) They have been placed on the bonfire of austerity, a necessary sacrifice, and as they burn, we warm our hands.
  • (18) Tories David Cameron said that the media regulator will be stripped of its policy-making functions, which will be returned to the government, as part of his "bonfire of the quangos".
  • (19) The leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, said she was concerned the so-called “regulation bonfire” contained some “very bitter pills” including changes to environmental protections.
  • (20) In fairness to Cameron, he understands this and disowns the "bonfire" phrase as simplistic.

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