different between combustible vs combustion

English

Etymology

From Middle French combustible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?b?st?b?l/

Adjective

combustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)

1. Capable of burning

   • Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.

2. (figuratively) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.

   • Arnold, however, was a combustible character.

Antonyms

• incombustible

Related terms

• combust
• combustibility
• combustion

Translations

Noun

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. A material that is capable of burning.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.bus?ti.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.bus?ti.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.bus?ti.ble/

Adjective

combustible (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. combustible, fuel

Related terms

• combustió

Further reading

• “combustible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “combustible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “combustible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “combustible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Adjective

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kombus?tible/, [kõm.bus?t?i.??le]

Adjective

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. fuel

Derived terms

• agrocombustible
• combustible fósil

Related terms

• comburente
• combustión

Further reading

• “combustible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Old French combustion, from Latin combustio, from comburere (“to burn”), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe"); equivalent to combust +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?b?s.t??n/

Noun

combustion (countable and uncountable, plural combustions)

1. (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
2. A process where two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
3. A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
4. (figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
   • c. 1665, John Worthington, "The Author's Life", in The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede

     There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.

Synonyms

• (act or process of burning): incineration, cremation

Hyponyms

• deflagration
• detonation

Related terms

• combustible
• combustive
• combustor
• spontaneous combustion

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French combustion, from Latin combustio, from comburere (“to burn”), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.bys.tj??/
• Homophone: combustions
• Hyphenation: com?bus?tion

Noun

combustion f (plural combustions)

1. combustion, burning, incineration

Derived terms

• chambre de combustion
• combustible
• turbine à gaz de combustion

Related terms

• comburant

Further reading

• “combustion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).