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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flame \Flame\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Flaming}.] [OE. flamen, flaumben, F. flamber, OF. also,
     flamer. See {Flame}, n.]
     1. To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from
        bodies in combustion; to blaze.
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              The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
              would make it flame again.            --Shak.
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     2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of
        passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
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              He flamed with indignation.           --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flaming \Flam"ing\, a.
     1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
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     2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
        "In flaming yellow bright." --Prior.
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     3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly
        earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  colorful \colorful\ adj.
     1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
           shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
           {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
           empurpled}]
  
     Syn: colourful.
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     2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
        or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
        {flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
        jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
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     3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
        as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
        {monochrome}.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
           brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
           reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
           {azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
           bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
           bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
           blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
           {brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
           canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
           {chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
           earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
           dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
           lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
           multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
           painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
           varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
           {ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
           {orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
           {purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
           cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
           scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
           {rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
           snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
           snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
           brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
           straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
           {tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
           vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
           {yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
           bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
           green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
           honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
           {maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
           {sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
           {light}.]
  
     Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flaming
       adj 1: resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze
              in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves" [syn: {ablaze}]
       2: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
          (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
          aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight
          on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a
          burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on
          fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)}, {aflare(p)},
           {alight(p)}, {blazing}, {burning}, {on fire(p)}]
       3: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or
          blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore";
          "you flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)}, {bloody(a)},
           {blooming(a)}, {crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)}, {fucking(a)}]
       4: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: {fiery}]
       n : the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing
           heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our
           ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: {fire}, {flame}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  237 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaming":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze,
     affected, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent,
     bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blasted, blatant, blazing,
     bleeding, blinding, bloody, blooming, boiling, boiling over,
     breathless, bricky, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, burning,
     burning with excitement, candent, candescent, cardinal, carmine,
     carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red,
     comburent, committed, conflagrant, conspicuous, convoluted,
     cordial, crimson, damask, damned, dazzling, declamatory, dedicated,
     delirious, devoted, devout, drunk, earnest, effulgent, egregious,
     elevated, enthusiastic, euphuistic, excited, extravagant,
     exuberant, faithful, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, fervent,
     fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, fire-red, flagrant, flamboyant,
     flame-colored, flame-red, flaring, flashing, flashy, flaunting,
     flickering, flushed, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurating,
     fulsome, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glowing,
     grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gules, guttering,
     hard-core, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-flowing,
     high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, hot,
     hot-blooded, hotheaded, ignescent, ignited, impassioned,
     in a blaze, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, in rut, incandescent,
     incarmined, inflamed, infrared, inkhorn, intense, intent,
     intent on, intoxicated, iron-red, keen, kindled, labyrinthine,
     lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lexiphanic, live, lively, living,
     lobster-red, lofty, loyal, lurid, madcap, magniloquent, maroon,
     meretricious, meteoric, obvious, on fire, orotund, ostentatious,
     overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, passionate,
     pedantic, perfervid, pompous, port-wine, pretentious, puce, red,
     red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber,
     reddish-brown, reeking, refulgent, resolute, resplendent,
     rhetorical, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby,
     ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust,
     rust-red, rusty, scarlet, scintillant, scintillating, scorching,
     seething, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, serious,
     sexually excited, showy, sincere, smoking, smoldering, sonorous,
     sparking, spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stammel,
     steaming, steamy, stilted, tall, tile-red, tortuous,
     totally committed, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained,
     vehement, vermilion, vigorous, vinaceous, vivid, warm, white-hot,
     wine, wine-colored, wine-red, zealous
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  flaming
       
          {flame}
       
       

















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