“burning” – English explanatory dictionary

adj 1. very hot ○ The baby must have a temperature – his face is burning. ○ Careful, the pan is burning hot. 2. painful, as though being touched by something hot ○ She had a burning pain in her left eye. 3. very keen ○ He had a burning desire to go to Egypt. 4. □ burning question an important matter, which is likely to cause a lot of argument ○ Who will be the new mayor, that is the burning question at the moment.

a. 1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as burning zeal. “Like a young hound upon a burning scent.
Dryden.” Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

n. The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated. Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. — Burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun’s rays to a focus. — Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. — Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass. Syn. — Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.