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Tropical vs Flaming - What's the difference?

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Tropical is a related term of flaming.


As adjectives the difference between tropical and flaming

is that tropical is of or north and 23 degrees south while flaming is on fire with visible flames.

As nouns the difference between tropical and flaming

is that tropical is a tropical plant while flaming is sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.

As a verb flaming is

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tropical

English

Alternative forms

* (abbreviation)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or north and 23 degrees south.
  • From or similar to a hot climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
  • (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a .
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • * South
    • The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

    Derived terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tropical plant.

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    flaming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • On fire with visible flames.
    • The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
  • (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
    • To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
  • (British, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
    • I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!

    Verb

    (head)

    • See also

    * flame war * flame bait

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame
  • (internet slang) vitriolic criticism
    • You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.
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