What's the difference between blazing and burning?

Blazing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blaze
  • (a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
  • (2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
  • (3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (4) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
  • (5) He claimed the blaze was sparked by overheated cables setting light to stacks of toilet roll.
  • (6) In recent years, the violence has shifted away from the terraces into the streets of the capital as rival barras fight for control in a blaze of fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions.
  • (7) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
  • (8) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
  • (9) The rest of the show finds Morpurgo – one of the stars of improv hit Austentatious – connecting these snippets to tell the tale of a female cop charged with solving the mystery of that blaze.
  • (10) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
  • (11) California is doing well in terms of resources, despite a pair of huge blazes in the north.
  • (12) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
  • (13) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
  • (14) The present review is first and foremost a tribute to Monroe Eaton and his colleagues for their trail-blazing discovery of a major cause of the atypical pneumonia syndrome and their steadfast vision of its importance.
  • (15) Blaze now has six employees, including Brooke, and would be in profit but for investment in future products, she says, one of which will be a new type of rear light, expanding on her vision to become the company that caters for the urban cyclist.
  • (16) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
  • (17) The former England striker broke away on a couple of occasions but he blazed the first chance over and the second wide.
  • (18) Simon Mignolet saved well from Mario Gasper and Jonathan Dos Santos blazed over when Cédric Bakambu’s run presented him with an excellent chance seconds before the opener.
  • (19) The worst blaze burned 30 homes in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, and triggered 11,500 evacuation notices.
  • (20) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.

Burning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burn
  • (a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
  • (a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.
  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (2) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
  • (3) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
  • (4) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (5) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
  • (6) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (7) For the purpose of studying the role of elastase and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bacterial infection in burns, the effects of the vaccines made from each enzyme, their toxoids and OEP on protection against infection in burned mice were studied.
  • (8) The authors report on their experience in the use of cultured keratinocytes in severely burned children, observed in the Surgical Emergency and Pediatric Surgery Department at the Gaslini Institute of Genova.
  • (9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
  • (11) It is often difficult if not impossible to include a pediatric patient in the planning of burn reconstruction.
  • (12) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
  • (13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
  • (14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
  • (15) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
  • (16) We conclude that a burn involving the chest wall results in cardiopulmonary abnormalities, not seen after a body burn of a comparable size, which appear to be due to hyperthermia and an increased release of prostacyclin and O2 radicals.
  • (17) During treatment, the mother underwent an abortion and burned her face with kitchen chemicals.
  • (18) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (19) Significant enhancement of IL-2 production by indomethacin was seen in the burned group (mean, 95%), but not in controls (mean, 23.8%) or normal mice (mean, 17.2%), and similar effects were seen with flurbiprofen.
  • (20) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.