different between burning vs snaste

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

Alternative forms

• snast, snaist, snaast, sneeste, sneest, snace, snaice, sneeze, snaich

Etymology

Perhaps related to snite (verb), or perhaps related to gnast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæst/, (dialectally also) /sne?st/

Noun

snaste (plural snastes)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Natural History, page 127:

     Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.

   • 1865, Edward FitzGerald, Works, page 426:

     A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.

   • 1899, Fison, Merry Suf., page 62:

     As that snaste of that candle, goos out.

Verb

snaste (third-person singular simple present snastes, present participle snasting, simple past and past participle snasted)

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialectal) To snuff a candle.

References

Anagrams

• antses, assent, sanest, stanes, steans