burning
burn·ing (bʉr′niŋ)
adjective
- that burns
- of the utmost seriousness or importance a burning issue
burning
modif.
On fire
flaming, fiery, blazing, glowing, ablaze, afire, on fire, smoking, in flames, aflame, inflamed, kindled, enkindled, ignited, lighted, lit, red, hot, scorching, incandescent, turning to ashes, aglow, searing, roasting, in a blaze, blistering, red-hot, white-hot, smoldering, oxidizing, being consumed, going up in smoke. Fervent
intense, ardent, impassioned; see passionate 2.Eager
zealous, fervid, rapt, glowing; see enthusiastic 2, 3.Caustic
Preposition: of
- effigy: I imagine most of my waking ( and sleeping ) hours would have them organizing a picket and burning of an effigy of me.
- incense: Frankincense essential oil can be used in a manner similar to burning of the incense in spiritual practice.
- fuel: A major cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels to create energy.
Adjective modifier
- ripping: The Player provides faster access to top activities, such as ripping, burning, and syncing.
- fossil: Between them, belching and biomass burning make the second largest contribution to global warming after fossil fuel burning.
- uncontrolled: Uncontrolled burning or burying of farm wastes is no longer permitted.
- heather: Fire hazard is incr easing in some areas where there is insufficient heather burning.
- rotational: Careful rotational heather burning by the gamekeeper maintains a mosaic of heather of variable age.
Modifies a noun
- stove: The wood burning stove will be kept in situ.
- sensation: Others feel pain or a burning sensation in their upper abdomen.
- bush: That was the new name by which, He had revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush.
- desire: Mel's burning desire was to see the gray whales.
- incense: Exodus chapter 30 ( TEV ) 1 " Make an altar out of acacia wood, for burning incense.
- candle: Next, meditate for a few minutes on the burning candle.
Noun used with modifier
- wood: The wood burning stove will be kept in situ.
- charcoal: In the wood below is a pit, which could have been used for charcoal burning, or for burning twigs to produce potash.
- biomass: Wilton 10 will be a new, purpose built biomass burning boiler.
- fossil-fuel: It will use SolidWorks for all design of fossil-fuel burning equipment for commercial power generation and industrial plants.
- log: There is a log burning stove in the main living room.
- calorie: The former is thought to be more significant in terms of calorie burning than the latter.
It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais.
What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Now is the time for the burning of the leaves.
Lock the door, Lariston, lion of Liddesdale; Lock the door, Lariston, Lowther comes on; The Armstrongs are flying, The widows are crying, The Castletown's burning, and Oliver's gone!
Christ for myguardianship today: against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, that there may come to me a multitude of rewards; Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ over me, Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every person who may thinkof me, Christ in the mouth of every person who may speak of me, Christ in every eye, which may look on me! Christ in every ear, which may hear me!
The Lady's Not for Burning.
Browse dictionary entries near burning
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- Burne-Jones
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- burning glass
- burnish
- burnoose
- burnout
- Burns
- Burns, Eric
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