What's the difference between blaze and braze?

Blaze


Definition:

  • (n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
  • (n.) Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
  • (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
  • (n.) A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
  • (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
  • (v. i.) To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
  • (v. i.) To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
  • (v. i.) To be resplendent.
  • (v. t.) To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
  • (v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
  • (v. i.) To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
  • (v. i.) To blazon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
  • (2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
  • (3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (4) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
  • (5) He claimed the blaze was sparked by overheated cables setting light to stacks of toilet roll.
  • (6) In recent years, the violence has shifted away from the terraces into the streets of the capital as rival barras fight for control in a blaze of fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions.
  • (7) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
  • (8) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
  • (9) The rest of the show finds Morpurgo – one of the stars of improv hit Austentatious – connecting these snippets to tell the tale of a female cop charged with solving the mystery of that blaze.
  • (10) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
  • (11) California is doing well in terms of resources, despite a pair of huge blazes in the north.
  • (12) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
  • (13) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
  • (14) The present review is first and foremost a tribute to Monroe Eaton and his colleagues for their trail-blazing discovery of a major cause of the atypical pneumonia syndrome and their steadfast vision of its importance.
  • (15) Blaze now has six employees, including Brooke, and would be in profit but for investment in future products, she says, one of which will be a new type of rear light, expanding on her vision to become the company that caters for the urban cyclist.
  • (16) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
  • (17) The former England striker broke away on a couple of occasions but he blazed the first chance over and the second wide.
  • (18) Simon Mignolet saved well from Mario Gasper and Jonathan Dos Santos blazed over when Cédric Bakambu’s run presented him with an excellent chance seconds before the opener.
  • (19) The worst blaze burned 30 homes in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, and triggered 11,500 evacuation notices.
  • (20) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.

Braze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
  • (v. i.) To harden.
  • (v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
  • (2) A total of 69 male subjects occupationally exposed to cadmium fumes in a factory producing silver-cadmium-copper alloys for brazing, were subjected to lung function tests, including ventilation (FVC and FEV1), residual volume (RV) and alveolar-capillary diffusion capacity (TLCO and KCO).
  • (3) Tensile strength, 0.2% proof stress, and percentage elongation of the welded bars were measured and compared with the corresponding values for the titanium bars as delivered and with those of brazed type-3 gold alloy bars of similar dimensions.
  • (4) Brazed specimens of a high-gold alloy were used as a reference.
  • (5) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Abdul El Saidi, 56, is Brompton’s brazing manager.
  • (6) A braze alloy is used to join the sections of the sample together and the resulting sample is stable during subsequent grinding, dimpling, and milling operations.
  • (7) A method for preparing cross-section transmission electron microscopy specimens from alumina and partially stabilized zirconia braze joints is described.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brazing in the Brompton factory.
  • (9) Get acquainted with archaic-sounding kitchen verbs: brewing, fermenting, brazing, curing.
  • (10) The action of local corrosion cells around the brazed joint is considered, and it is concluded that the two materials seem well suited for implant supraconstructions, provided that brazing the silver-palladium can be avoided.
  • (11) When I joined the company I used to get emails from all over the world from people saying, ‘I want to come and see the way you braze,’” the 54-year-old says.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A workman brazes components of a folding bike in the Brompton Bicycle factory.
  • (13) However, the multi-component devices, which were joined with silver- and copper-based brazing alloys were more cytotoxic than the single-component devices.
  • (14) The amounts of metal released from the brazed arch bar were 140-600 times higher than those released from the solid arch bar.
  • (15) Addition of low melting temperature elements gallium and indium reduced flow temperature in some cases but produced brittleness in the brazing alloy.
  • (16) The braze training manager at Brompton Bicycle is one of a dying breed of craftsmen in Britain whoturn the copper scars knitting together the steel frame into things of beauty.
  • (17) The nature of the fracture in the brazed joint is described, and corrosion identified as the mechanism of degradation of the joint.
  • (18) The technique relies on masking a mechanically dimpled 3-mm disc in order to avoid preferential thinning of the metallic braze filler alloy during ion milling.
  • (19) The carbon composite and the silver-palladium per se did not corrode, whereas a silver-palladium specimen brazed with the recommended brazing alloy corroded unmistakably, yielding copper-containing corrosion products.
  • (20) It is recommended that appropriate grades of silver brazing alloy be used in the future, and that the mechanical integrity of medical devices joined with silver braze be regularly checked to anticipate failure in use.