FLAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flaming mean? 

• FLAMING (noun)
  The noun FLAMING has 1 sense:

1. the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

  Familiarity information: FLAMING used as a noun is very rare.

• FLAMING (adjective)
  The adjective FLAMING has 2 senses:

1. informal intensifiers

2. very intense

  Familiarity information: FLAMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

fire; flame; flaming

Context example:

fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries

Hypernyms ("flaming" is a kind of...):

burning; combustion (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flaming"):

blaze; blazing (a strong flame that burns brightly)

flare (a sudden burst of flame)

ignition (the process of initiating combustion or catching fire)

Derivation:

flame (be in flames or aflame)

• FLAMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal intensifiers

Synonyms:

bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking

Context example:

you flaming idiot

Similar:

unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very intense

Synonyms:

fiery; flaming

Context example:

flaming passions

Similar:

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

With a flaming brand in each hand, he sprang to the edge of the fire.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was flaming from the fresh reading of the ripest thought he had expressed, and her verdict stunned him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lord John never hesitated, but, running towards it with a quick, light step, he dashed the flaming wood into the brute's face.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He thought she was just perfect, and talked about it for days and days, and went on about you all in flaming style.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I wonder what other bridegroom ever looked as he did—so bent up to a purpose, so grimly resolute: or who, under such steadfast brows, ever revealed such flaming and flashing eyes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I cannot see that there is anything very funny,” cried our client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, to be sure, the good lady who showed us his house did give him a most flaming character!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Brutality had followed brutality, and flaming passions and cold-blooded cruelty had driven men to seek one another’s lives, and to strive to hurt, and maim, and destroy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Therefore the honeyguide waits while an expert human undertakes the dangerous tasks of subduing the bees (by smoking them out using a flaming bundle of twigs and leaves hoisted high into the tree) and extracting the honey from within, usually by felling the entire tree.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)