different between torrid vs burning

English

Etymology

From Latin torridus, from torre? (“parch, scorch”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t???d/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?t???d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???d/

Adjective

torrid (comparative torrider, superlative torridest)

1. Very hot and dry.
2. Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.

   a torrid love scene in a film or novel

3. Full of difficulty.

Derived terms

• torrid zone

Related terms

• torrent
• toast

Translations

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r?d/

Verb

torrid

1. (literary) imperfect/conditional impersonal of torri

Mutation

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