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Burning vs Firing - What's the difference?

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Burning is a related term of firing.


As verbs the difference between burning and firing

is that burning is while firing is .

As nouns the difference between burning and firing

is that burning is the act by which something burns or is burned while firing is the process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.

As an adjective burning

is so hot as to seem to burn (something).

burning

English

Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= 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.}}
  • Feeling very hot.
  • Feeling great passion.
  • Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Like a young hound upon a burning scent.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something burns or is burned.
  • * 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
    • It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
  • * 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
    • 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.
  • A fire.
    • The burnings continued all day.

    firing

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
  • The fuel for a fire.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • No more dams I'll make for fish; / Nor fetch in firing / At requiring [...]
  • The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
  • The dismissal of someone from a job.

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