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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

fire and flame

hi there

i'm new to this forum so i dont know whether anyone has asked the same question before
anw, what is the difference b/w fire and flame? i know there're certain usages for those two and cases in which they're not interchangeable. still, they get me confused most of the time. the dictionary doesnt help much its definitions are pretty vague.

and another point: they are in some case countable and in others uncountable. how to use and distinguish then? again my dictionary has a lot of examples but i want to know how to use the words in daily conversation.

thanks in advance. Emotion: smile
  

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Fire = the state of burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and give out bright light, heat, and smoke. com/2l7h8e Flame = a hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by something on fire. com/3a7ata Flames are part of a fire, a fire is not part of a flame.

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  • Fire = the state of burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and give out bright light, heat, and smoke.
  • com/2l7h8e Flame = a hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by something on fire.
  • com/3a7ata Flames are part of a fire, a fire is not part of a flame.
  • I had a wonderful fire in the grate last night when it was so cold.
  • There were beautiful flames in it.
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Fire = the state of burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and give out bright light, heat, and smoke. This is a bonfire: http://tinyurl.com/2l7h8e

Flame = a hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by something on fire. This is a flame:
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