burning combustion | the act of burning something, the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance |
burning | a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin |
burning burning at the stake | execution by fire |
electrocution burning | execution by electricity |
summer cypress burning bush fire bush fire-bush belvedere Bassia scoparia Kochia scoparia | densely branched Eurasian plant, foliage turns purpleed in autumn |
fraxinella dittany burning bush gas plant Dictamnus alba | Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather |
wahoo burning bush Euonymus atropurpureus | deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds |
burning bush | (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses |
combustion burning | a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light |
burn burning | pain that feels hot as if it were on fire |
admixture alloy | the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something |
alloy metal | a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten, brass is an alloy of zinc and copper |
alloy iron alloy cast iron | cast iron containing alloying elements (usually nickel or chromium or copper or molybdenum) to increase the strength or facilitate heat treatment |
alloy steel | steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon |
copper-base alloy | any alloy whose principal component is copper |
nickel-base alloy nickel alloy | an alloy whose main constituent is nickel |
pyrophoric alloy | an alloy that emits sparks when struck or scratched with steel, used in lighter flints |
Wood's metal Wood's alloy | a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium, melts at aboutdegrees Fahrenheit |
alloy | make an alloy of |
debase alloy | lower in value by increasing the base-metal content |
free burning sustained | (of an electric arc) continuous, heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs |
clean-burning | leaving little contamination while consuming fuel, natural gas is a clean-burning fuel |
coal-fired coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |
wood-fired wood-burning | fueled by wood, a wood-burning stove' |
burning(a) | of immediate import, burning issues of the day |