Ember vs. Flame — What's the Difference?

An ember is a glowing, hot coal made of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede, a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them.

A flame (from Latin flamma) is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic chemical reaction taking place in a thin zone.

A small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire

The zone of burning gases and fine suspended matter associated with rapid combustion; a hot, glowing mass of burning gas or vapor.

A small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire.

The condition of active, blazing combustion

Embers The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire.

Something resembling a flame in motion, brilliance, intensity, or shape.

A glowing piece of coal or wood; a hot coal.

A violent or intense passion.

Smoldering ash.

(Informal) A person that one has an intense passion for.

Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.

(Informal) An insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger, as on a computer network.

A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; - used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.

To burn brightly; blaze.

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

To color or flash suddenly

A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

(Informal) To make insulting criticisms or remarks, as on a computer network, to incite anger.

To burn, ignite, or scorch (something) with a flame.

(Informal) To insult or criticize provokingly, as on a computer network.

(Obsolete) To excite; inflame.

The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.

An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.

(color) A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour. E82D14

The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.

Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.

To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.

To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.

To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.

A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.

Ardor of affection; the passion of love.

A person beloved; a sweetheart.

To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.

To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.

To kindle; to inflame; to excite.

The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke;

Shine with a sudden light;

Be in flames or aflame;

Criticize harshly, on the e-mail