flaming
pronunciation
How to pronounce flaming in British English:
UK [ˈfleɪmɪŋ]
How to pronounce flaming in American English:
US [ˈfleɪmɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
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- Adjective:
- resembling flame in brilliance or color
- lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- (used of persons) informal intensifiers
- very intense
Word Origin
- flaming (adj.)
- late 14c., "flame-like in appearance;" c. 1400, "on fire," present participle adjective from flame (v.). Meaning "of bright or gaudy colors" is from mid-15c. As an intensifying adjective, late 19c. Meaning "glaringly homosexual" is homosexual slang, 1970s (along with flamer (n.) "conspicuously homosexual man"); but flamer "glaringly conspicuous person or thing" (1809) and flaming "glaringly conspicuous" (1781) are much earlier in a general sense, both originally with reference to "wenches." Related: Flamingly.
Example
- 1. It hurls flaming aluminum particles into the air , causing a bright flash without an accompanying shockwave
- 2. Flaming hoops and torches added deep orange flashes to the kaleidoscopic scene .
- 3. The red rock and soil here likely derive their flaming colors from iron oxides .
- 4. Flaming enthusiasm , backed up by horse sense and persistence , is the quality that most frequently makes for success .
- 5. I headed down an alley just off the square where protesters had created a blockade of flaming garbage bins .