different between burning vs pyretic

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??n??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n??

Verb

burning

1. present participle of burn

Adjective

burning (comparative more burning, superlative most burning)

1. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
2. Feeling very hot.

3. Feeling great passion.

4. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.

   • like a young hound upon a burning scent

5. Being keenly discussed.

   a burning question; a burning issue

Derived terms

• wood-burning, woodburning

Translations

Noun

burning (plural burnings)

1. The act by which something burns or is burned.
   • 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.

2. A fire.

   The burnings continued all day.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bruning

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin pyreticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (puretikós, “febrile”), from ??????? (puretós, “fever”), from ??? (pûr, “fire”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

pyretic (not comparable)

1. Caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever.

Related terms

• antipyretic
• alexipyretic

Translations

Noun

pyretic (plural pyretics)

1. A remedy for fever.

Anagrams

• pycrite