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Burning   /bˈərnɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Burning  adj.  
1.
That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
2.
Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. "Like a young hound upon a burning scent."
Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.


noun
Burning  n.  The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.
Burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.
Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites.
Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Synonyms: Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.





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"Burning" Quotes from Famous Books



... these views upon our commanders for the last two years. You are almost the only one who has properly applied them. I do not approve of General Hunter's course in burning private homes or uselessly destroying private property. That is barbarous. But I approve of taking or destroying whatever may serve as supplies to us ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman
... concentrating my abilities on the serving out of stamps and the issuing of postal orders. Besides which, I get no time for study. Evening before last, at the Finsbury Town Hall, I came as near to finding my memory fail as ever I've been. I'm burning ...
— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge
... the Kremlin. I had not yet got a pass to the Kremlin, so she arranged to meet me and get a pass for me from the Commandant. I walked through the snow to the white gate at the end of the bridge which leads over the garden up a steep incline to the Kremlin. Here a fire of logs was burning, and three soldiers were sitting around it. Madame Radek was waiting for me, warming her hands at the fire, and we went together into the ...
— Russia in 1919 • Arthur Ransome
... emissions and open-air burning; acid rain; water pollution from increased use of agricultural fertilizers; loss ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... when Lycas, in a towering rage because his preserves had been secretly invaded, demanded that I indemnify him in her stead. She was an old flame of his, so he broached the subject of a mutual exchange of favors. Burning with lust, he pressed his suit, but Tryphaena possessed my heart, and I said Lycas nay. By refusal, however, he was only made more ardent, followed me everywhere, entered my room at night, and, after his entreaties ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter


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