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flaming

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flaming may refer to: Anything set aflame or on fire Flaming (Internet) , the act of posting deliberately hostile messages on the Internet used mainly by a "troll" Flame maple , the striped figures in maple woodwork prized for their beauty Fläming , a region ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a blazing/flaming row (= a very angry row ) ▪ She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN torch ▪ He grabbed a flaming torch and wielded it in front of him. ▪ Each ...

Usage examples of flaming.

She whirled and ran through the hail of flaming leaves that were wafting about in ashes on the coming wind.

A Japanese bioelectronics team from Mitsubishi had met him in orbit, and together they had sent the SB back down to Earth in flaming pieces.

They came out finally and saw the flaming ruins of the Brandenburg tumbling into the sea below.

When they led her between two flaming brazers she only glanced at the fire with mild interest.

It was the first of a storm, the tight packed balls flaming and falling as the carcasses were rolled on to the breach, and suddenly the breaches, the ditch, the ravelin, the obstacles, and the tiny figures of the Forlorn Hope were swamped in light, light poured from above, by flames that caught on the obstacles in the ditch, and the Hope began to climb as the fire was bright on their bayonets.

The snow base, six inches, obscured most of the seeds that the flaming bird liked to eat, but light winds kept a few delicacies dropping, including some still-succulent chokeberry seeds.

It takes two blasts, but the ship farthest out on the pier is demasted and a mass of flames even before the cannon turns slightly and shears all three masts of the innermost vessel, reducing it to a flaming pyre.

Cheeks flaming, she dialed back her speed and glanced at her new running partner.

Though she received the honor calmly, Dolley felt her cheeks flaming, thereby eliciting a comment in a letter of one Mrs.

Jaguar XKE drophead coupe, flaming red, with red leather upholstery and wire wheels.

Usually he wore faded blue jeans with a flaming Hawaiian shirt, along with sandals and dweebish white socks, looking like he had just spent the night in a Mexican hotel.

Had the ship been other than an engineless wreck, falling through a hundred and fifty million miles of emptiness into the flaming photosphere of a sun, everything would have seemed quite normal, including the errand Baird and Diane were upon, and the fact that they held hands self-consciously as they went about it.

Big Name Fans with reps as fanzine reviewers of low-brow space opera and elves-and-dragons schlock, inveigle an innocent academic critic into taking part in the animal act, add two science fiction writers, one with pretensions to literary ambitions, namely Dexter, and one to proclaim that he was only in it to separate Joe from his beer money, namely that flaming red asshole Garret Selby.

Stripped to the waist, Ruark leaned against the heavy footpost of his bed, his eyes like flaming golden brands as he watched Shanna saunter toward him, moving her hips with an undulating grace beneath the batiste garment.

Jackson and Stafford had started three or four others, and the original one round the forebitts had spread across twelve feet or more of deck, lapping at the foot of the foremast like flaming waves at a mangrove root.