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Definition: Burning |
BurningAdjective1. Producing or having a painfully hot sensation; "begged for water to soothe his burning throat". 2. Intensely hot; "a burning fever"; "the burning sand". 3. Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair". 4. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire". 5. Of immediate import; "burning issues of the day". 6. Consuming fuel; used in combination; "coal-burning (or wood-burning) stoves". Noun1. The act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance". 2. Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. 3. A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light. 4. Execution by electricity. 5. Execution by fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | Condition resulting from rubbing a lacquer film too hard. The heat. . . may soften the lacquer and cause it to stick to the pad, permanently marrying the finish. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Consumption by oxidation, evolving heat and generally also flame(neither necessarily sensible)and/or incandescence. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | Noise due to irregular currents, produced by the microphone in the absence of acoustic stimulus. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Cutting and burning rough fallow on land to prepare for tillage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A type of combustion when proceeding at a rate sufficient to evolve sensible heat and commonly also(when fire)flame, smoke and/or incandescence. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Damage done, due to the atmosphere, to a non-ferrous metal either when melting or when being poured. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Overheating at a temperature so high that partial melting or oxidation occurs. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deterioration of a metal in the solid state, during heat treatment, by exceeding the temperature when fusion commences, which has caused the separation of certain constituents, or by heating in a n oxidising surrounding, which has caused the internal oxidation of the metal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Heat treatment of a shaped refractory material to produce mechanical strength and other necessary properties. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Burning can refer to :
- Combustion.
- The use of a CD burner.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Combustion or burning is a chemical reaction in which a fuel combines with oxygen (O2), releasing heat and producing an oxide. The most common types of fuel are organic materials containing carbon and hydrogen, from which the waste products are typically carbon monoxide (CO) or carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O) and sometimes smoke.
The process of destroying unwanted materials by burning is known as incineration. Incineration is done on a small scale by individuals, and on a large scale by industry.
For burn injuries, see burn.
See also:
- internal combustion engine
- spontaneous combustion
- fire
- deflagration
- detonation
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Execution by burning has a long historical tradition as being a legal method of punishment for crimes such as heresy, treason, and the practice of witchcraft. This method of execution has currently fallen into disfavor. The particular form of execution by burning in which the condemned is bound to a large stake is more commonly called burning at the stake or auto de fe.If the fire is big (for instance, when a large number of heretics were executed at the same time) the death comes from the carbon monoxide poisoning before flames engulf the body. However, if the fire is small, the convict burns slowly and dies in great pain.
According to ancient reports, Roman authorities executed many of the early Christian martyrs by burning. These reports claim that in some cases they failed to be burned, and had to be beheaded instead. However, all such ancient manuscripts were copied by Christian monks, and even Catholic sources state that many of these claims were invented (or "apocryphal").
In 1184, the Synod of Verona legislated that burning was to be the official punishment for heresy. This decree was later reaffirmed by the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215, the Synod of Toulouse in 1229, and numerous spiritual and secular leaders up through the 17th century.
Witch trials became increasingly popular through the 14th and 15th century in Scotland, Spain, England, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. It is estimated that up to four million convicted witches and heretics were burned at the stake during this time.
Among the best known convicted heretics to be executed by burning were Jan Hus (1415), Joan of Arc (1431) and Giordano Bruno (1600).
Contrary to popular history, none of the executions in the Salem witch trials were carried out by burning, but rather by hanging (and in one case, by pressing under stones).
During the reign of Queen Mary in England (1553-1558), some two hundred and seventy seven people were burnt at the stake for heresy against the Catholic church and conspiracy against the Queen, including Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley. Between 1555-57 seventeen protestants were burnt at the stake outside of the Star Inn in the town of Lewes in Sussex. The traditional bonfire celebrations held annually in the town on 5 November commemorate the burnings as well as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
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Fire in San Bernardino, California Mountains
(image taken from the International Space Station)A wildfire, also known as a forest fire (or bushfire in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning; other common causes are human carelessness and arson.
Drought and the prevention of small forest fires are major contributors to extreme forest fires.
Background
Wildfires are common in many places around the world, including much of the vegetated areas of Australia, forest areas of the United States and Canada, where the climates are sufficiently moist to allow the growth of trees, but feature extended dry, hot periods when fallen branches, leaves, and other material can dry out and becomes highly flammable. Wildfires are also common in grasslands and scrublands. Wildfires tend to be most common and severe during years of drought and occur on days of strong winds. With extensive urbanization of wildlands, these fires often involve destruction of suburban homes located in the wildland urban intermix.
Today it is accepted that wildfires are a natural part of the ecosystem of wildlands, where, at the least, plants have evolved to survive fires by a variety of strategies (from possessing reserve shoots that sprout after a fire, to fire-resistant seeds), or even encourage fire (for example eucalypts contain flammable oils in the leaves) as a way to eliminate competition from less fire-tolerant species. Most native animals, too, are adept at surviving wildfires.
On occasions, wildfires have caused large-scale damage to private property, particularly when they have reached urban-fringe communities, destroying many homes and causing deaths.
Slash, small, rotten, mis-shapen, or otherwise undesirable wood discarded during logging, has historically provided the fuel for devastating fires such as the fires in Michigan in the 19th century.
The aftermath of a wildfire can be as disastrous if not more so than the actual fire itself. A particularly destructive fire burns away all the plants and trees which prevented erosion. If heavy rains occur after such a fire, landslides, ash flows, and flash floods are to be expected. Not only does this result in severe property damage for those living in the immediate fire area, but it also affects the quality of the local water supply.
Green Knoll Wildfire
in Jackson, Wyoming
Prevention
For many decades the policy of the United States Forest Service was to surpress all fires, and this policy was epitomized by the mascot Smokey the Bear and was also the basis of parts of the movie Bambi. The policy began to be questioned in the 1960s, when it was realized that no new sequoias had been grown in the redwood forests of California, because fire is an essential part of their life cycle. This produced the policy of controlled burns to reduce underbrush. This clears much of the undergrowth through forest and woodland areas, making travel and hunting much easier while reducing the risk of dangerous high-intensity fires caused by many years of fuel buildup.
However, the previous policy of absolute fire suppression in the United States had resulted in the buildup of fuel resulting in large and severe fires such as the fire in Yellowstone National Park in 1988. Urbanization can also result in fuel buildup and devastating fires, such as those in Los Alamos, New Mexico, East Bay Hills, within the California cities of Oakland and Berkeley, between October 19 and 22, 1991, all over Colorado in 2002, and throughout Southern California in October, 2003.
On average, wildfires burn 4.3 million acres (1.7 million hectares) in the United States annually. In recent years the federal government has spent $1 billion a year on fire suppression. 2002 was a record year for fires with major fires in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Oregon.
The risk of major wildfires can be reduced by reducing the amount of fuel present. In wildland, this can be accomplished by either conducting "controlled burns" - deliberately setting areas ablaze under less dangerous weather conditions in spring or autumn - or physical fuel removal by removing some trees as is conducted in many American forests. Both approaches are controversial with some environmentalists, who regard them as tampering with the forest ecosystem.
People living in fire-prone areas typically take a variety of precautions, including building their homes out of flame-resistant materials, reducing the amount of fuel near the home or property (including firebreaks - their own miniature control lines, in effect), and investing in their own firefighting equipment.
Rural farming communities are rarely threatened directly by wildfire. These types of communities are usually located in large areas of cleared, usually grazed, land, and in the drought conditions present in wildfire years there is often very little grass left on such grazed areas. Hence the risk is minimized. However, urban fringes have spread into forested areas, for example in Sydney and Melbourne, and communities have literally built themselves in the middle of highly flammable forests. These communities are at high risk of destruction in bushfires.
Fire suppression
Most fire-prone areas have large firefighter services to help control bushfires. As well as the water-spraying trucks most commonly used in urban firefighting, bushfire services use a variety of alternative techniques. They often possess aircraft, particularly helicopters, that can douse areas that are inaccessible to ground crews and deliver greater quantities of water and/or flame retardant chemicals. However, large fires are of such a size that no conceivable firefighting service could attempt to douse the whole fire directly, and so alternative techniques are used.
In alternative approaches, firefighters attempt to control the fire by controlling the area that it can spread to, by creating "control lines", which are areas that contain no combustible material. These control lines can be produced by physically removing fuel (for instance, with a bulldozer), or by "backburning", in which small, low-intensity fires are started to burn the flammable material in a (hopefully) controlled way. These may then be extinguished by firefighters, or, ideally, directed in such a way that they meet the main fire front, at which point both fires run out of flammable material and are thus extinguished.
Unfortunately, such methods can fail in the face of wind shifts causing fires to miss control lines or to jump straight over them (for instance, because a burning tree falls across a line, burning embers are carried by the wind over the line, or burning tumbleweeds cross the line).
The actual goals of firefighters vary. Protection of life (those of both the firefighters and "civilians") is given top priority, then private property according to economic and social value and also to its "savability" (for example, more effort will be expended on saving a house with a tile roof than one with a wooden-shake roof). In very severe, large fires, this is sometimes the only possible action. Protecting houses is regarded as more important than, say, farming machinery sheds, although firefighters, if possible, try to keep fires off farmland to protect stock and fences (steel fences are destroyed by the passage of fire, as the wire is irreversibly stretched and weakened by it). Preventing the burning of publicly-owned forested areas is generally of least priority, and, indeed, it is quite common (in Australia, at least) for firefighters to simply observe a fire burn towards control lines through forest rather than attempt to put it out more quickly - it is, after all, a natural process.
Famous wildfires in North America
- Miramichi fire in Maine and New Brunswick, which burned three million acres (12150 km²) and killed 160 people. 1825
- Yachina fire in Oregon, which burned 450,000 acres 1846
- Nestucca fire in Oregon, which burned 320,000 acres 1853
- The Silverton fire, the worst recorded fire in Oregon, which burned an estimated one million acres 1865
- The Coos fire in Oregon, which burned 300,000 acres 1868
- The Peshtigo, Wisconsin fire, which burned 1,200,000 acres (4850 km²) in one day October 8, 1871 (overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, which occurred on the same day)
- Bighorn fire in Wyoming, which burned 500,000 acres 1876
- A fire in Michigan, burned a million acres and killed 138 people 1881
- The Hinckley fire in Minnesota, burned 160,000 acres, killed 418 people, and destroyed 12 towns 1894
- The Adirondack fire in New York, which burned 450,000 acres 1903
- The Great Fire of 1910, burned about three million acres in Idaho and Montana over two days (August 20, and 21), killed 86 people
- The Tillamook Burn, which swept through the same region of Oregon four times, and burned a total of 355,000 acres 1933, 1939, 1945, and 1951
- A series of fires in Maine over ten days, burned 175,000 acres and killed 16 people 1947
- Yellowstone National Park 800,000 acres, 1988
- Oakland Hills firestorm, killed 25 and destroyed 3469 homes and apartments within the California cities of Oakland and Berkeley, between October 19 and 22, 1991.
- Glenwood Springs, Colorado1994
- Mesa Verde National Park 2000
- Rodeo-Chediski fire, Arizona, 2002 467,066 acres of woodland burned, June 18 to July 7, 2002, and threatened, but did not burn the town of Show Low, Arizona.
- Durango, Colorado fires 2002, 915,000 acres burned 9 firefighter deaths, 235 homes destroyed
- The Florence/Sour Biscuit Complex Fire, burned 499,570 acres in southwestern Oregon between July 13 and September 5, 2002
- Major fire inferno in the Okanagan district, British Columbia covering around 500,000 acres, displacing more than 5,000 inhabitants, in August and September 2003
- At least 13 major fires in the Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties in California covering 800,000 acres (3237 km²), killing 24, displacing 120,000 and destroying 3,600 homes in October 2003. Damage estimated at 2 billion USD. See NASA images: [1].
External Links
Further Reading
- Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire, Stephen J. Pyne, Princeton University Press, 1982, hardcover, 654 pages, ISBN 0-691-08300-2
- Year of the Fires, The Story of the Great Fires of 1910, Stephen J. Pyne, Viking Penguin, 2001, 320 pages, ISBN 0670899909
- Ghosts of the Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter, Peter M. Leschak, HarperSanFrancisco, 2002, hardback, 288 pages, ISBN 0062517775
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wildfire."
Synonyms: BurningSynonyms: ablaze(p) (adj), afire(p) (adj), aflame(p) (adj), aflare(p) (adj), alight(p) (adj), ardent (adj), blazing (adj), burning(a) (adj), fervent (adj), fervid (adj), fiery (adj), flaming (adj), impassioned (adj), on fire(p) (adj), perfervid (adj), torrid (adj), burn (n), burning at the stake (n), combustion (n), electrocution (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Noun: increase of temperature; heating. Verb: calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction; burning. Verb: ambustion, combustion; incension, accension; concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation, calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation. |
Curiosity | Adjective: curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory; curious as a cat; agape; (expectant). |
Desire | Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire. |
Disrepute | Crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain, point champain; byword of reproach; Ichabod. |
Excitability | Impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile. |
Feeling | Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over. |
Heat | Red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning. Verb: hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg. |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
Physical Pain | Sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain. |
Prodigality | Adverb: with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket. |
Resentment | Warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Burning |
| English words defined with "burning": Burning mirror ♦ free burning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "burning": Burning Crown, burning rate constant, BURNING SHAME, burning torch ♦ Hydrogen Burning ♦ regressive burning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "burning": Uredo. (references) |
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Screenplays | There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) Listen to Tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your future (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) What's burning, man (Alien: Resurrection; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) They come with fire, they come with axesgnawing, biting, hacking, burning! (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) I got chicken burning. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) | |
Lyrics | It's burning through to my soul (Burning Love; performing artist: Elvis Presley) And though my fuse is burning slow (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) Leave them burning and then you're gone ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba) And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) And the pavements are burning (Cruel Summer; performing artist: Bananarama) | |
Clever | Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. (references; author: unknown) Teenagers express their burning desires to be different by dressing exactly alike. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lady's Not for Burning (1974) A Time for Burning (1967) Help! My Snowman's Burning Down (1964) Burning Bright (1959) The Burning Hills (1956) | |
Song Titles | Burning Bridges (performing artist: Jack Scott) Somethings Burning (performing artist: Kenny Rogers and The First Edition) Keep The Fire Burning (performing artist: REO Speedwagon) Burning Heart (performing artist: Survivor) Burning Down The House (performing artist: Talking Heads) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Burning building and firefighter at Emory Village, Atlanta, Georgia, January 1979. Fire, smoke. Credit: CDC. |  | Launch DELTA churning and burning On line doing hydrography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Burning off marsh south of New Orleans to improve next year's growth. Numerous canals are in this area for oil and gas exploration. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A group of volunteers haul away Brazilian Pepper refuse before burning. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, Dec. 7, 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from the. |  | Burning test rows of prairie grasses at the Manhattan Plant Materials Center, Manhattan, KS. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | The Burning Man illuminated with neon lights, Burning Man festival, Black Rock Desert, Gerlach, Nevada. Credit: Mike Bilbo. |  | Campers at Black Rock City, Burning Man festival, Black Rock Desert, Gerlach, Nevada. Credit: Mike Bilbo. |
 | Prescribed burning at Wetlands. Credit: D. Huntington. |  | Burning off Sump Pit at Trading Bay, Cook Inlet. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
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| "Burning" by Sergey Lebedev Commentary: "25112003 session." | "Burning Building 3" by Warwick Kay Commentary: "Fire in an old shed just behind a shopping mall. ." |
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 | Fireball; meteor; fiery; ablaze; afire; aflame; alight; blazing; burning; conflagrant; flaming; flaring; ignited; lighted; afire; fire. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Rimbaud | The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. |
Author Unknown | You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own. |
Camille Desmoulins | Burning is no answer. |
George Meredith | Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. |
Sterling W. Sill | Earth is filled with Heaven and on every foot may shine the glory of the burning bush. But only he who sees takes off his shoes. |
Viktor E. Frankl | What is to give light must endure the burning. |
W. Clement Stone | When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. |
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John Locke | 1690 | That as much as may be, all the members of the society are to be preserved: for since many accidents may happen, wherein a strict and rigid observation of the laws may do harm; (as not to pull down an innocent man's house to stop the fire, when the next to it is burning) and a man may come sometimes within the reach of the law, which makes no distinction of persons, by an action that may deserve reward and pardon; 'tis fit the ruler should have a power, in many cases, to mitigate the severity of the law, and pardon some offenders: for the end of government being the preservation of all, as much as may be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes to furnish to the University of Louvain, within three months after a request made by it and transmitted through the intervention of the Reparation Commission, manuscripts, incunabula, printed books, maps and objects of collection corresponding in number and value to those destroyed in the burning by Germany of the Library of Louvain. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His brain was burning, He went to the window and threw it wide open |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He is there in the tabernacle burning with love for mankind, ready to comfort the afflicted |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The turtle had jerked into its shell, but now it hurried on, for the highway was burning hot. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | (For I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning glass |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Pain or burning when you urinate (pass your water). (references) | |
I have pain or burning feelings when going to the toilet. (references) | ||
Intense tingling and burning sensations are harder to treat. (references) | ||
Business | The NFFO, in conjunction with RECs and generators, have established wind power as a viable alternative to fossil fuel burning. (references) | |
Inadequate protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) is a critical deterrent to foreign investment in Russia and has been a burning issue for foreign businesses, operating in Russia, for years. (references) | ||
Demand for the crane industry comes from the construction of high-rise apartment complexes, commercial buildings, express ways, high-speed railways, coal burning and nuclear power plants, and bridge construction projects. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Gabon | The protesters fled but started to riot, burning and looting shops and residences in Port Gentil. (references) |
Rwanda | Abuses reportedly took the form of attacks on missions, killings of priests, the rape of nuns, and the burning of churches. (references) | |
Ghana | The mob also attacked vehicles on the Accra-Winneba road, which passes directly by the camp, damaging vehicles, burning tires, and harassing drivers. (references) | |
Economic History | Mongolia | The burning of soft coal coupled with thousands of factories in Ulaanbaatar has resulted in severely polluted air. (references) |
Brazil | Recent migrations into the Amazon and largescale burning of forest areas have placed the international spotlight on Brazil. (references) | |
Netherlands | In 1998, the total bio energy was made up from 64 percent waste incineration, 23 percent wood burning, five percent fermenting and five percent gas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Solomon Islands | This event followed the burning of homes in the Matanikau and Tasahe areas of Honiara. (references) |
Kenya | Although police rescued the suspected murderer from the mob, a man was stoned to death as he fled his burning home. (references) | |
Indonesia | The Muslims claimed to be retaliating against the burning of an effigy of Usama bin Laden in a predominantly Christian town. (references) | |
Minorities | Kenya | In September Muslim youths were suspected of responsibility for burning down two wooden churches in Isolo. (references) |
Kenya | Two days of violent clashes resulted in the burning of several buildings, including a mosque and two churches. (references) | |
Mexico | In many cases, these expulsions involved the burning of homes and crops, beatings, and, occasionally, killings. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | These raids were accompanied by killings, abductions, rapes, burning and looting of villages, theft of cattle, and significant displacement of civilian populations. (references) |
Guinea | RUF rebels from Sierra Leone and armed attackers from Liberia committed numerous killings, mutilations, abductions, and other abuses, including the burning of homes. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | Many current and former police officers, mostly believed to be from two national police units dominated by Malaitans, sided with armed Malaitan political groups; police and militants from both sides committed numerous human rights abuses in 2000, including killings, abductions, torture, rape, forced displacement, looting, and the burning of homes. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | Past demonstrations have been marked by burning tires, blocked streets, and Molotov cocktails. (references) |
Women | Kuwait | In November an Asian maid committed suicide by burning herself to death. (references) |
India | Sati, the practice of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands, was banned in 1829, but continued despite the ban. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning in his breast. The rising moon o'er that enchanted land Pauses to hear and yearns to understand. Mowbray Myles |
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Dennis Miller | As a matter of fact, at this point, the only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is. |
Tom Brokaw | You know, and it's in Europe, the burning of the synagogues, and the resentment of what Israel is doing. I wish I could say if we hit this switch, it will go away. I think a lot of it has to do with envy and resentment. I really believe that. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Despite the imminent explosion of the burning aircraft, he never hesitated. |
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| "Burning" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.07% of the time. "Burning" is used about 1,929 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 57.07% | 1,101 | 6,867 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 42.67% | 823 | 8,499 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.21% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,929 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "burning". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Anaharath | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Beor | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Cuth | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Damascus | N/A | Biblical | The similitude of burning |
| Jokdeam | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Macedonia | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Makkedah | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Phlegon | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Rezeph | N/A | Biblical | Burning coal |
| Seraphim | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Taberah | N/A | Biblical | Burning |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "burning": a brand from the burning ♦ a smell of burning ♦ after burning ♦ be burning ♦ burning ash ♦ burning at the stake ♦ burning bush ♦ burning coal ♦ burning down ♦ Burning fluid ♦ burning glass ♦ burning heat ♦ burning hot ♦ Burning house ♦ burning issue ♦ Burning mirror ♦ burning mountain ♦ Burning Mouth Syndrome ♦ burning pain ♦ burning passion ♦ burning period ♦ burning point ♦ burning question ♦ burning thirst ♦ burning torch ♦ burning with anger ♦ control burning ♦ controlled burning ♦ critical burning period ♦ free burning ♦ ion burning ♦ keep the fire burning ♦ leave burning ♦ money burning a hole in one's pocket ♦ prescribed burning ♦ regressive burning ♦ smell burning ♦ smell of burning ♦ smell of burning food ♦ start burning ♦ sun burning ♦ wood burning ♦ wood burning stove. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "burning": burning-at-the-stake, burning-cats-alive, burning-eyed, burning-glass, burning-ground, burning-in, burning-on, burning-pains. | |
Ending with "burning": anti-flag-burning, fuel-burning, gas-burning, slow-burning, straw-burning, stubble-burning, witch-burning, wood-burning. | |
Containing "burning": the-boy-stood-on-the-burning-deck. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nero burning rom | 2,093 | free cd burning program | 205 |
cd burning | 1,602 | nero burning room | 188 |
burning man | 1,357 | burning spear | 176 |
nero burning | 1,218 | 5.5.10.35 burning nero rom | 174 |
cd burning software | 1,111 | free dvd burning software | 163 |
dvd burning | 809 | burning foot | 163 |
free cd burning software | 797 | flag burning | 151 |
dvd burning software | 595 | burning rom | 151 |
burning | 556 | burning free software | 143 |
wood burning stove | 482 | fat burning diet | 142 |
burning ps2 game | 420 | burning program | 137 |
calorie burning | 375 | fat burning exercise | 134 |
cd burning program | 373 | burning of rome | 128 |
free burning cd | 344 | the burning man festival | 118 |
burning cds | 332 | music burning | 117 |
burning software | 324 | mississippi burning | 117 |
burning bush | 282 | vcd burning | 108 |
fat burning food | 268 | barn burning | 107 |
fat burning | 246 | burning x box game | 103 |
burning play station game | 209 | wood burning fireplace | 99 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "burning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të djegurit (afterburning, cauterization, cautery), përvëlues (fiery, scalding, torrid, withering), i nxehtë (ardent, earnest, fervent, fiery, glowing, heated, hot, red-hot, scalding, torrid), i flaktë (ardent, flaming, hot, impassioned, incandescent). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقد (fire, fuel), كياحراقي, ملتهب (ablaze, aflame, blazing, fiery, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, red-hot, vehement), محرق (blazing, focal point, focus, mordant, pungent), متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), مشتعل (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, be alight, blazing, burner, conflagrant, flaring, in flames, on fire), لذع (acrimony, bite, poignancy, pungency, scorch, sharpness, smart), لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), حارق (burner, fiery, incendiary, incinerating, incinerator, scorching, searing), التهاب, إحتراق (burn), إحراق (calcination, combustion). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | горящ (ablaze, afire, alight, live, on fire), горещ (aglow, devout, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, high-spirited, hot, intense, scorching, strong, thermal, torrid), горене (burn, combustion), запален (afire, alight, enthusiastic, mad), печене (baking, burn, firing, roast, roasting), парлив (acrid, hot, peppery, sharp, stinging), палещ (fervent, scorching, torrid), изгаряне (burn, combustion, flying, incineration, scorch). (various references) | |
Chinese | 烧 (Burned, Burnt). (various references) | |
Czech | vroucí (ardent, fervent, heartfelt, soulful, tender), planoucí (aglow, blazing, flaming, flamy), palèivý (blazing, pungent, torrid, urgent), pálící, ožehavý (awkward, delicate, knotty, thorny), naléhavý (dire, emergent, exhortative, exigent, immediate, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, of great importance, pressing, stringent, urgent), hořící (ablaze), řeřavý (glowing). (various references) | |
Danish | braendkultur (Ash farming, Burn-beating), braending (baking, breakers, firing, groundswell, stoving, surf), svedning (bleeding, fatting up, sweating), svedjebrug (Ash farming, Burn-beating, nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), overhedning (superheat, superheating), goedskning ved afbraending af vegetationen (Ash farming, Burn-beating), forbraending (combustion, swealed, sweating), forbrænding (combustion), eksplosionsagtig forbrænding (deflagration), afbrand, afbraending og svedning. (various references) | |
Dutch | brandend (ablaze, afire, pressing, urgent), brand (conflagration, fire), verbranding (combustion), verbranden (be burnt down, burn, burn down, incinerate), stoppelbrand (Ash farming, Burn-beating), explosieve verbranding (blazing combustion, deflagration), deflagratie (deflagration), afbrand. (various references) | |
Esperanto | teni brulanta (keep ... burning). (various references) | |
Finnish | palaminen (combustion). (various references) | |
French | brûlage (fuel burnout), brûlant, brûlis (burn, Burn-beating), brûlure (burn), bruit de microphone, brulant, cuisson, ardent (burly), écobuage (Burn-beating), cuisant, violent, deflagration, embrasé, embrasement, en flamme, enflammé, incendie, intense, combustion (burn up). (various references) | |
German | verbrennung (burn, combustion, cremation, incineration, scald, torridness), verbrennend (deflagrating, incinerating, scorching), anbrennend. (various references) | |
Greek | καύση (combustion, conmbustion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משרפה (cremation, crematorium, incinerator, kiln), יקידה, יקוד (fire), לוהט (aglow, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, incandescent, torrid), תבערה (conflagration, fire), שורף, שרפה (combustion, conflagration, fire), כויה (burn, cauterization, cautery, scalding, scorch), הקדחה (spoiling), הבערה (destruction, kindling, setting fire), בוער (ablaze, flaming, on fire), בעירה, בערה (conflagration, consuming, fire), צורב (biting, bitter, caustic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | forró (boiling, ebullient, fervent, fervid, heated, hot, perfervid, scalding, torrid), égetés (calcination, firing), égető (acute, burner, caustic, exigent, searing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembakaran (combustion, ignition, lighting, roasting), menyala (ablaze, afire, aflame, blaze). (various references) | |
Italian | bruciatura (burn, scorch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 燃焼 (combustion), 燃焼 (combustion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねんしょう (combustion, yearlyturnover, youth). (various references) | |
Korean | 점화 (IGN, ignition, lighting). (various references) | |
Manx | scoaldee (boiling hot), lossey (ablaze, afire, aflame, blaze, blush, flame, flame up, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light), loshtagh (caustic, inflammable, lion's mane, smarting), jiarg-lossey, jiarg-cheh (burning hot, red hot, scalding hot), jiarg loshtee (red-hot), jiarg (abandoned, bloodshot, fair, fair intensive, florid, glowing, gules, live, red, rouge, ruddy, sanguine, stark, turned, turned as land), foaddey (arson, burn, burn up, ignite, ignition, incendiarism, kindle, light, set on fire, switch on). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urningbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | queimadura (burn, scald), inflamação (irritation, kindling), combustão (combustion). (various references) | |
Romanian | zãpuşitor, usturãtor (acrid, biting, cutting, mordant, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, shrewd, smart, smarting, stinging), temperaturã (fever, fire, flush, temperature), prãjire, fierbinte (ardent, boiling, consuming, devout, ebullient, fervent, fiery, hot, intense, scorching, torrid), de ardere, combustie (combustion), calcinare (calcination, decrepitation), cãlire (hardening, induration), arzãtor (ardent, ardently, burner, fiery, hot, hot-blooded, intense, passionately, scorching, sultry, topical, urgent), ardere (calcination, combustion, decrepitation, ignition), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid). (various references) | |
Russian | сжигание (incineration), горячий (ardent, boiling hot, earnest, fervent, fervid, fiery, full of beans, glowing, heady, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, red-hot, vehement, warm blooded), жгучий (salt, scalding). (various references) | |
Scottish | oit (an interjection to denote the sense of burning heat), losgadh (a burning, combustion), grìosach (burning embers). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vatren (ardent, fiery, glowing, gushing, hot-blooded, igneous, peppery, perfervid, red-hot, spirited, spunky, torrid), spaljivanje (incineration), jarki (bright, hot), gorući (ablaze, blazing, hot, urgent), gorenje (combustion). (various references) | |
Spanish | quemadura (blight, burn, crematorium, scorch, sear), combustión (combustion). (various references) | |
Swedish | förbränning (combustion, incineration), bränning (breaker, cauterization, cautery, cremation, firing, land-wash, surf), brännande (ardent, caustic, crucial, fiery, parching, searing, sharp, vital). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanan (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, blazing, flaming), yakıcı (bitter, burner, parching, piquant, poignant, scorching, torrid), ivedi (crying, hasty, hurry up, hustle, posting, pressing, urgent), hararetli (aboil, aglow, dithyrambic, excited, fervent, fevered, glowing, heated, in a glow, perfervid, roaring, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, warm), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | jokrama (hot, sultry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | горючий (combustible), горіння (combustion), випалювання (baking, calcination), окислення (acidification, combustion, corrosion, oxidation, oxidizing), жар (ardency, ardour, broil, fever, heat, temperature, zest), пекучий (baking, parching, scorching, sizzling, stinging, sultry, torrid), палаючий (ablaze, aflame, ardent, fervid, flagrant, flaming, glowing, lurid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thiêu, sự khê, sự hăng hái (ardour, enthusiasm, fire, impassionedness, keenness, mustard, snap, spirit, verve), sự đốt (bite), nhiệt tình (animation, devoted, devotedly, devout, fire, impassionedness, mettle, mettled, mettlesome, spirit, verve, warm), nóng hổi, mãnh liệt (ardent, ardently, blaze, energetic, fierce, high, mightily, sin, vehement, violently), ghê gớm (desperate, fearful, formidable, gruesome, mortally, obscene, plaguy, precious, preciously, terrible, thundering, tremendous, woefully), cấp bách (exigent, imperative, imperious, instant, pressing, rush), đang cháy thiết tha. (various references) | |
Welsh | poeth (ardent, hot), llosgfa, llosg, eirias (fiery, glowing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gibil. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | maqlu, surpu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accensibilem, adustione, adustionem, ardens, coctio, coctione, conbustio, conbustionem, conbustiones, conbustionis, fervens, fervente, ferventes, ferventis, fervidus, flagrantiam, fraglantia, igneus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | saociñtãm. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | brond, bryne. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kata to eqoV thV ierateiaV elacen tou qumiasai eiselqwn eiV ton naon tou kuriou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Secundum consuetudinem sacerdotii sorte exiit ut incensum poneret ingressus in templum Domini |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | æfter gewunan ðæs sacerdhades hlotes. he eode þæt he hys offrunga sette; þa he on godes tempel eode |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Aftir the custome of the preesthod, he wente forth bi lot, and entride in to the temple, to encense. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | (accordinge to the custome of the prestes office) his lot was to bourne incece. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | According to the custom of the priests' office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | sumala sa nabatasan sa pagkasacerdote, siya maoy nahitungnan sa ripa aron sa pagsulod sa templo sa Ginoo ug sa paghalad sa incienso. |
| Croatian | ždrijebom ga zapade po bogoslužnom obièaju da uðe u Svetište Gospodnje i prinese kad. |
| Danish | tilfaldt det ham efter Præstetjenestens Sædvane at gå ind i Herrens Tempel og bringe Røgelseofferet. |
| Dutch | Naar de gewoonte der priesterlijke bediening, hem te lote was gevallen, dat hij zoude ingaan in den tempel des Heeren om te reukofferen. |
| Finnish | että hän tavanmukaisessa pappistehtävien arpomisessa sai osaksensa mennä Herran temppeliin suitsuttamaan. |
| French | d`après la règle du sacerdoce, à entrer dans le temple du Seigneur pour offrir le parfum. |
| German | nach Gewohnheit des Priestertums, und an ihm war, daß er räuchern sollte, ging er in den Tempel des HERRN. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dengan undian, yang biasanya dilakukan oleh imam-imam, Zakharia ditunjuk untuk masuk ke dalam Rumah Tuhan dan membakar kemenyan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | bahwa ia terkena undi, menurut pekerjaan imam, akan masuk ke dalam Bait Allah membakar kemenyan. |
| Manx Gaelic | Cordail rish cliaghtey oik y taggyrt, dy haghyr eh dy ve yn currym echey dy lostey oural-millish, tra v'eh goll stiagh ayns chiamble y Chiarn. |
| Maori | E whakarite ana i nga ritenga o nga tohunga, ka taka mana te haere ki roto ki te whare tapu o te Ariki, tahu ai te whakakakara. |
| Norwegian | at det efter preste-tjenestens sedvane tilfalt ham å gå inn i Herrens tempel og ofre røkelse; |
| Rumanian | dupq obiceiul preoyiei, a iewit la soryi sq intre sq tqmkieze kn Templul Domnului. |
| Russian | РП ЦТЕВЙА, ЛБЛ ПВЩЛОПЧЕООП ВЩМП Х УЧСЭЕООЙЛПЧ, ДПУФБМПУШ ЕНХ ЧПКФЙ Ч ИТБН зПУРПДЕОШ ДМС ЛБЦДЕОЙС, |
| Shuar | Israer-shuar Yúsnan pujurin Chíkich weeanmaya Nuyá Chíkich weeanam, ankant ankant Yusa jeen Takáu ármiayi. Chíkich tsawant, Sakarías Weeá takastin amia nui, Sakaríaska kunkuinian ekeemaktaj tusa init wayatniuyayi. |
| Swahili | Zakariya alichaguliwa kwa kura, kama ilivyokuwa desturi, kuingia hekaluni ili afukize ubani. |
| Swedish | hände det sig, vid den övliga lottningen om de prästerliga sysslorna, att det tillföll honom att gå in i Herrens tempel och tända rökelsen. |
| Uma | Ntuku' ada-ra, mpenoa' -ra ba hema-ra to rapelihi mesua' hi rala Tomi Alata'ala mpotunu dupa'. Zakharia-mi to mpela pompenoa' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burning": burningly, burnings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "burning": heartburning, outburning, overburning, sunburning, windburning. (additional references) | |
Words containing "burning": heartburnings. (additional references) | |
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"Burning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aborning, Birnin, borning, brnign, brrrming, brunain, Brundin, Bruning, Brunings, Brunini, brunni, brunning, Bunning, buring, Buringh, burining, Burnant, burnng, bursing, gburnage, gurning, lurning, ubring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "burning" (pronounced ber"ning) |
| 4 | -er" n i ng | adjourning, churning, concerning, discerning, Durning, earning, learning, returning, spurning, turning, yearning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-n-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: bring, bruin, burin, inurn, ruing, unrig. | |
-3 letters: brig, brin, bung, bunn, burg, burn, girn, grin, grub, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bug, bun, bur, gib, gin, gnu, gun, inn, nib, nub, nun, rib, rig, rin, rub, rug, run, urb, urn. | |
-5 letters: bi, in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-n-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burnings, unrobing. | |
+2 letters: brunching, bunkering, burdening, burningly, numbering, suborning, unbarring, unbearing, unbracing, unbraking, uncurbing. | |
+3 letters: blundering, burgeoning, burnishing, burthening, outburning, rebounding, sunburning, unbraiding, unbridling, upbringing, urbanising, urbanizing. | |
+4 letters: bankrupting, baserunning, bourgeoning, bourguignon, burnishings, bushranging, encumbering, incumbering, overburning, rebuttoning, renumbering, submarining, unbreeching, unburdening, underbuying, unignorable, unlimbering, upbringings, windburning. | |
+5 letters: baserunnings, blueprinting, blunderingly, buccaneering, bushrangings, contributing, disburdening, heartburning, neighbouring, outnumbering, prenumbering, underbidding, underbudding, unscrambling. | |
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