burning

«burning» in Mova's school dictionary: On fire; giving out flames and heat: a burning building — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (burning); verb form (-ing of burn: burn, burns, burned/burnt, burning); noun (burning — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) On fire; giving out flames and heat: a burning building. tree →

2) Very hot: burning sand. tree →

3) Feeling sore and hot: a burning feeling in your eyes. tree →

4) Very strong or important: a burning question, a burning wish. tree →

5) The -ing form of burn: «The fire is burning». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: burning (combustion) needs fuel, oxygen and heat — the fire triangle; burning is an irreversible change (you can't get the wood back); burning fuel releases carbon dioxide. In safety: if you smell burning, tell an adult; get out of a burning building, stay low under smoke, don't go back in; stop, drop and roll if your clothes catch fire; cool a burn under cold running water for 20 minutes. Phrases: burning smell, burning hot, burning question, burning sensation, candle burning, burning down.

examples

• I can smell something burning! tree →
• Get out of a burning building and don't go back in. tree →
• The sand was burning hot. tree →
• The candle is burning on the table. tree →
• My eyes were burning from the smoke. tree →
• Burning wood is a change you can't undo. tree →
• I have a burning question for the teacher. tree →
• Stop, drop and roll if your clothes are burning. tree →
• My throat is dry and burning. tree →

note

Past of burn: burned (US and UK) or burnt (UK, Australia). «Burnt toast» uses burnt as an adjective. Burning is an irreversible change, unlike melting. Never use butter or ice on a burn — use cool running water.

In the corpora

• Burning with curiosity, Alice dashes after him and jumps down a rabbit-hole without once thinking how she will get out again.
• Burning wax joins its carbon and hydrogen with oxygen and makes carbon dioxide and water vapour.
• Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel joins with oxygen, giving energy, carbon dioxide and water.
• Burning charcoal gives off carbon monoxide, an invisible poisonous gas, so barbecues must never be brought indoors or into a tent.
• Rusting is a very slow cousin of burning: iron and oxygen join and give out a little heat.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «burning» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.