Flaring

Quick meaning: Flaring is an adjective meaning Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.

Meaning

Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of flare
2. The act of something that flares.
3. (oil industry) The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.

Example Sentences

Now the moon illumined them with bluish gleams, and anon the fires of aurora borealis seemed to cover them with the flarings of a great conflagration.

[…] those shootings of stars, eclipses of the moon, howlings of dogs, and flarings of candles, carefully noted and interpreted by the oracular sibyls […]

Mazie and Nick have trouble, in the first place, making the fire. They finally start a great flaring fire instead of the small steady flame that Prudence requires for cooking.

Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. Flaring is used to burn unwanted gas, putting CO₂ into the atmosphere, but is easy to detect and has been increasingly frowned upon in recent years.

Word Forms

• flarings

Synonyms for flaring

Depending on context, synonyms include moving, fluttering, increasing, aflare, flying, flared.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aflare, waving, fluttering, increasing, moving, flying.

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