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Burning vs Nidor - What's the difference?

burning | nidor |

As nouns the difference between burning and nidor

is that burning is the act by which something burns or is burned while nidor is the smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.

As a verb burning

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective burning

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

burning

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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.

    nidor

    English

    Noun

    (nidor)
  • The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.
  • * 1743 , Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity , edition 3 (London), page 524:
    • The First-fruits'' were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in ''sacrificiing'' Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the ''Smoke'', and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with ''human Sacrifices.
  • * 1896 , Daniel Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist , page 623:
    • Elsewhere to blood, smoke, and nidor , he opposes purity of thought, sincerity of affection,
  • * 1997 , Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon :
    • The smell, at some times of year sensible for Miles, of Sheep, and wool-fat, and that queasy Nidor of Lambs baking in ovens meant for bread
  • (nonstandard) Any smell.
  • * 2007 , Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring , page 28:
    • For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette.
  • * 2008 , Edgar Wallace, Devil Man , page 9:
    • The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.
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