English | German | Russian | Czech

burning English

Meaning burning meaning

What does burning mean?
Definitions in simple English

burning

So hot as to seem to burn (something). the burning sun Feeling very hot. burning skin Feeling great passion. her burning heart

burning

the act of burning something the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin execution by fire of immediate import burning issues of the day (= electrocution) execution by electricity (= combustion) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light (= burn) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

Synonyms burning synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as burning?

Topics burning topics

What do people use burning to talk about?

Examples burning examples

How do I use burning in a sentence?

Simple sentences

As soon as he opened the door, he smelled something burning.
He's burning old books.
Tom took two small children out of the burning house.
The instant he opened the door, he smelt something burning.
It's quite distinct from the smell of burning.
I saw the baby carried out of the burning house.
The brave fireman rescued a boy from the burning house.
I have a burning pain here.
I smell something burning, Mother.
There were cars burning, people dying, and nobody could help them.
The firemen rushed into the burning house.
The coals are burning red.
The sailors abandoned the burning ship.
There was a light burning in the window.
Someone left a burning cigarette on the table.
The firemen's face was grim when he came out of the burning house.
Bridges are burning and chances are few.
I smell something burning.
The child was rescued from a burning house.
Look! The book is burning.
The fireman rushed into the burning house.
The coal is burning.

Movie subtitles

My butt was burning.
When you're not burning them down.
It is burning in the fires of eternal damnation, Mr Shepherd.
Burning the midnight to find Declan?
You think someone was burning evidence?
Anne Arundel county sheriff's department's reporting a downed aircraft burning two miles outside of Crofton.
Ulysses, who removed himself from his companions, is called back by the smoke of burning bulls.
Already, the burning maddens the animal which increases its speed.
Day and night the stakes were burning, so that the plague wouldn't rise.
A sinner is thrown straight into the fire burning under one of the cauldrons.
O lord, fiery arrows are raining on the hall by the queen's order - the palace is burning.
Keep a light burning in the window, if you can find a window.
Look. It's burning over on the French side.
With burning adoration your Pavlik or have you found another man?
She's burning up!
When he was next to her and was looking at her, sweet weakness was penetrating all her body and burning desire was filling her.
I had to kneel before the altar and promise Mother I would always keep a flame burning before it.
That I swore to keep it burning?
He'd be burning up by tomorrow night.
Henry Frankenstein himself thrown from the top of the burning mill by the very monster he had created.
Great would be the burning thereof and loud the rejoicing in Heaven.
Their gold's burning holes in their pockets.
Clear away that burning wreckage!
It's burning!
The burning killers!
Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Department is reporting a downed aircraft burning 2 miles outside of Crofton.
All right. Keep a light burning in the window, if you can find a window.
Keep a light burning in the window.
You left the electric light burning in your classroom all last night.
Must be someone burning garbage.
Are you burning?
Something's burning!
Your toast is burning.
I know, my toast is burning.
Something burning?
You're hot. I feel bad. - He's burning.
It's burning a hole through my hands.

News and current affairs

A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
We wouldn't have to force (or subsidize) anyone to stop burning coal and oil.
But why can't the US bring itself to raise taxes on gasoline and other sources of carbon emission like coal burning power plants?
Small wonder: the American public is fiercely resistant to anything that seriously forces them to compromise on their energy-burning, gas-guzzling lifestyle.
AMMAN - Without much fanfare, the past few months have seen no anti-American demonstrations and no burning of American flags across the Arab world.
The fallout from nuclear waste is one; humans' contribution to global warming through greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, and its impact on rising sea levels, is another.
Circumstantial evidence does indeed point to our profligate burning of fossil fuels and perhaps also to its impact on global warming.
They cook and keep warm by burning twigs and dung, producing indoor air pollution that causes 3.5 million deaths per year - by far the world's biggest environmental problem.
Likewise, more nitrogen fertilizer is applied in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems, and nitric-oxide production from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass also surpasses natural emissions.
The basis for this claim was a single report from the World Wildlife Fund that itself cited only one study, which didn't even look at climate change, but rather at the impact of human activities like logging and burning.
We know that human activity is causing serious and complex changes in the global climate, mainly through the effects of burning fossil fuels like oil and gas, and the effects of deforestation.
Moreover, the technology necessary to convert it into energy - including high-yield burning, gas conversion, and liquefaction into synthetic fuel - has long been mastered.
Hundreds of thousands were mobilized to take to the streets, with many storming and burning down the Cairo headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
Similarly, engineers have developed ways to capture the carbon dioxide that results from burning coal in power plants and store it safely underground.
Burning fossil fuels also has significant benefits, and we should weigh those benefits against the costs.
Renewable energy overwhelmingly comes from often-unsustainable burning of wood and biomass by people in the Third World.
Likewise, China, concerned about the serious health costs linked to burning coal, is prohibiting new coal capacity in three coastal provinces under its newly adopted action plan on air pollution.
Low-carbon electricity can be produced by solar, nuclear, and wind energy, or by coal-burning power plants that capture and store their CO2 emissions.
Embassies have issued warnings to tourists and their citizens living in France; television news programs have shown hours of footage of burning cars.
Black carbon is essentially the soot produced by diesel emissions, and - in developing countries - by the burning of organic matter to cook food and stay warm.
According to the World Health Organization, about seven million deaths each year are caused by air pollution, with the majority a result of burning twigs and dung inside.
The target set by the new five-year plan is thus also a policy manifesto to battle these social disparities, which are now a burning issue for the country.
This added to the anger, and it led to burning embassies and threats of violence.

Are you looking for...?