burning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: By surface analysis, burn + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more burning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most burning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: burnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: So hot as to seem to burn (something).
pos: adj
examples: the burning sun
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around / Trying to smile, but the air is so heavy and dry
gloss: Feeling very hot.
pos: adj
examples: burning skin
gloss: Feeling great passion.
pos: adj
examples: her burning heart
gloss: Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
pos: adj
examples: burning zeal
a burning passion
like a young hound upon a burning scent
gloss: Being keenly discussed.
pos: adj
examples: a burning question; a burning issue
gloss: On fire.
pos: adj
examples: A firefighter puts water on a burning tree as flames approach a containment line, while fighting the King fire near Fresh Pond, California.
The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.
gloss: The act by which something burns or is burned.
pos: noun
examples: It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance[…]
The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
The suspect is the 21-year-old son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff’s deputy and may have been influenced by “black metal” music and its “associated history with church burnings,” the state fire marshal’s office said.
gloss: A fire.
pos: noun
examples: The burnings continued all day.
gloss: The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), which usually should be available on the blockchain for anyone to review such a transaction. It’s a one-way address with no ability to reverse the transaction or withdraw the coins. For all practical purposes, the asset no longer exists (it has been “burned”). The act of burning effectively removes tokens from the available supply.
pos: noun
gloss: A fiery pain.
pos: noun
Derived words: barn-burning
burning bush
burning feet syndrome
burning-glass
burning hot
burningly
Burning Man
burning mouth syndrome
burningness
burning nuclear plasma
burning plasma
burning question
burning tongue syndrome
electroburning
long-burning
nonburning
overburning
red burning skin syndrome
slow-burning
oil-burning
afterburning
barnburning
book burning
book-burning
bra-burning
brand from the burning
burning bar
burning-ghat
burning glass
burning index
burning lens
burning mirror
burning times
carbon burning
coal burning
flag-burning
heartburning
helium burning
hydrogen burning
inburning
lime burning
mowburning
oxygen burning
silicon burning
wood-burning
woodburning
yield burning
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