Burning vs Burnt - What's the difference?
burning | burnt |
So hot as to seem to burn (something).
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= Feeling very hot.
Feeling great passion.
Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
The act by which something burns or is burned.
* 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
* 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
A fire.
(burn)
(of food) Carbonised.
(of a person) Having a sunburn.
(of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.
As verbs the difference between burning and burnt
is that burning is while burnt is (burn).As adjectives the difference between burning and burnt
is that burning is so hot as to seem to burn (something) while burnt is (of food) carbonised.As a noun burning
is the act by which something burns or is burned.burning
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- Like a young hound upon a burning scent.
Noun
(en noun)- It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
- The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
- The burnings continued all day.
burnt
English
Alternative forms
* burnedVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The toast was too burnt to eat.