ALL meanings of flaming
flam·ing
F f - abbreviation Technical meaning of FLAMING flame 3
- adjective flaming blazing, burning 1
- noun flaming internet: hostile messages 1
- adjective flaming intensifier 1
- adjective flaming emitting flames; blazing; burning; fiery. 1
- adjective flaming like a flame in brilliance, heat, or shape. 1
- adjective flaming intensely ardent or passionate: flaming youth. 1
- adjective flaming Informal. (used as an intensifier) What a flaming idiot! 1
- adjective flaming Informal: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. (especially of a man) blatantly gay: He's a flaming queen! 1
- noun flaming burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor. 1
- noun flaming Often, flames. the state or condition of blazing combustion: to burst into flames. 1
- noun flaming any flamelike condition; glow; inflamed condition. 1
- noun flaming brilliant light; scintillating luster. 1
- noun flaming bright coloring; a streak or patch of color. 1
- noun flaming flame color. 1
- noun flaming intense ardor, zeal, or passion. 1
- noun flaming Informal. an object of one's passionate love; sweetheart: He's taking out his new flame tonight. 1
- noun flaming Computer Slang. an angry, critical, or disparaging electronic message, as an online comment. 1
- verb without object flaming to burn with a flame or flames; burst into flames; blaze. 1
- verb without object flaming to glow like flame; shine brilliantly; flash. 1
- verb without object flaming to burn or burst forth with strong emotion; break into open anger, indignation, etc. 1
- verb without object flaming Computer Slang. to post an angry, critical, or disparaging electronic message, as an online comment. 1
- verb with object flaming to subject to the action of flame or fire. 1
- verb with object flaming to flambé. 1
- verb with object flaming Computer Slang. to insult or criticize angrily in an online post or comment. 1
- noun flaming Burning fiercely and emitting flames. 1
- noun Technical meaning of flaming (messaging) To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility toward a particular person or group of people. "Flame" is used as a verb ("Don't flame me for this, but..."), a flame is a single flaming message, and "flamage" /flay'm*j/ the content. Flamage may occur in any medium (e.g. spoken, electronic mail, Usenet news, web). Sometimes a flame will be delimited in text by marks such as "
... 1". The term was probably independently invented at several different places. Mark L. Levinson says, "When I joined the Harvard student radio station (WHRB) in 1966, the terms flame and flamer were already well established there to refer to impolite ranting and to those who performed it. Communication among the students who worked at the station was by means of what today you might call a paper-based Usenet group. Everyone wrote comments to one another in a large ledger. Documentary evidence for the early use of flame/flamer is probably still there for anyone fanatical enough to research it." It is reported that "flaming" was in use to mean something like "interminably drawn-out semi-serious discussions" (late-night bull sessions) at Carleton College during 1968-1971. It is possible that the hackish sense of "flame" is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida", Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called "the fleminge of wrecches." This phrase seems to have been intended in context as "that which puts the wretches to flight" but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as "the flaming of wretches" would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet. - adjective flaming Flaming is used to describe something that is burning and producing a lot of flames. 0
- adjective flaming Something that is flaming red or orange is bright red or orange in colour. 0
- adjective flaming A flaming row or a flaming temper, for example, is a very angry row or a very bad temper. 0
- adjective flaming Some people use flaming to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are annoyed. 0
- adjective flaming Flaming is also an adverb. 0
- adjective flaming burning with or emitting flames 0
- adjective flaming glowing brightly; brilliant 0
- adjective flaming intense or ardent; vehement; passionate 0
- adjective flaming (intensifier) 0
- adjective flaming burning with flames; blazing 0
- adjective flaming like a flame in brilliance or heat 0
- adjective flaming intensely emotional; ardent; passionate 0
- adjective flaming startling or flagrant 0
- noun flaming sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame. 0
- noun flaming (Internet slang) vitriolic criticism. 0
- verb flaming present participle of flame. 0
- adjective flaming On fire with visible flames. 0
- adjective flaming (Colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male. 0
- adjective flaming (Colloquial) (Britain) Damned, bloody. 0