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Tanning vs Burning - What's the difference?

tanning | burning |

As verbs the difference between tanning and burning

is that tanning is while burning is .

As nouns the difference between tanning and burning

is that tanning is the acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially while burning is the act by which something burns or is burned.

As an adjective burning is

so hot as to seem to burn (something).

tanning

English

Verb

(head)
  • The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.

    • Noun

  • The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
  • (informal) A spanking.

    • See also

    * tan someone's hide

    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.