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BURNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of burning something
Example:
the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance
Synonyms:
burning; combustion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("burning" is a kind of...):
change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burning"):
arson; fire-raising; incendiarism (malicious burning to destroy property)
firing; ignition; inflammation; kindling; lighting (the act of setting something on fire)
incineration (the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("burning" is a kind of...):
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Execution by fire
Synonyms:
burning; burning at the stake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("burning" is a kind of...):
capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution (putting a condemned person to death)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burning"):
auto-da-fe (the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Execution by electricity
Synonyms:
burning; electrocution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("burning" is a kind of...):
capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution (putting a condemned person to death)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
Synonyms:
burning; combustion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("burning" is a kind of...):
oxidation; oxidisation; oxidization (the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burning"):
deflagration (combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat)
fire; flame; flaming (the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke)
internal combustion (the combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internal-combustion engine))
Sense 6
Meaning:
Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
Synonyms:
burn; burning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("burning" is a kind of...):
hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of immediate import
Example:
burning issues of the day
Classified under:
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb burn
Context examples:
“Something is burning,” Maud said, with sudden conviction.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames; but a second look dispelled the illusion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
An abnormal touch sensation, such as burning or prickling, that occurs without an outside stimulus.
(Paresthesia, NCI Dictionary)
Contact with 1,4-dichlorobenzene can irritate the eyes, leading to burning and tearing.
(Paradichlorobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)
Burning their fuel quickly, those pulsating stars that live fast and die young are 100,000 times brighter than the Sun.
(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But she, who knew little of the world of men, being a woman, was keenly aware of his burning eyes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You shall become a black poodle and have a gold collar round your neck, and shall eat burning coals, till the flames burst forth from your throat.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of five fused rings formed during the incomplete burning of organic matter.
(Dibenz[a,h]acridine, NCI Thesaurus)
A yellowish aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of five fused rings formed by the incomplete burning of organic matter.
(Dibenz[a,j]acridine, NCI Thesaurus)
Symptoms include a feeling of burning eyes and a possible foreign body presence in the eye.
(Dry Eye Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
